Record Details

NHER Number:35694
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Bronze Age miniature flat axehead

Summary

An Early Bronze Age miniature flat axehead was found here by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 05 01
Map Sheet:TG00SE
Parish:DEOPHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1999. Metal detecting. Cross Ref: 8913.
Early Bronze Age miniature flat axe (S2). Surface extremely pitted, arched butt, the concave sides are parallel towards the butt. Needham sub-class 2e, possibly class 3 (S1).
Length 59mm, blade width 33mm. Weight 63g.
K. Hinds (NLA), 25 September 2000.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Publication: Needham, S.. 1983. Early Bronze Age Axeheads of Central and Southern England.
<S2>Illustration: Holness, A.. 1999. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age miniature flat axehead.. Film. 1:1.

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