Record Details

NHER Number:4574
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age miniature axehead

Summary

A miniature Bronze Age flanged axehead was found on the surface of a field.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7805 0290
Map Sheet:TF70SE
Parish:GOODERSTONE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1970. Probably surface find on land belonging to Crow Farm.
Small flanged axe (miniature). Similar to one described in (S1). Owner two Irish examples (Type Ballyvally Harbison).
T. Clough (NCM).

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLANGED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • MINIATURE OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 70 SE 18.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Gooderstone.
<S1>Publication: Devizes Museum Catalogue. no.213, 299, 307, 315.

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