Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6556 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Unprovenanced Bronze Age, medieval and post-medieval finds (Baconsthorpe, poorly located) |
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Summary
Various objects known to have been recovered in Baconsthorpe but with little or no additional information regarding provenance. These finds include two Bronze Age socketed axes, a medieval coin and two post-medieval coins.
Images - none
Location
Full description
1969. Stray Find.
Two bronze socketed axes said to have been found 'in the region of half a mile east of Baconsthorpe Castle' (grid reference suggested TG 12 37, hardly agrees - exact findspot remains unknown).
See copies of record cards and accompanying sketches (S1) in file. These cards originally recorded the provenance of the axes as Sheringham but this was subsequently corrected to Baconsthorpe.
Compiled by E. B. Green (NCM). Information from (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 December 2015.
Pendleton (S3) cites Sheringham HER 6327 / Baconsthorpe HER 6556, axes found in a cable trench, as a hoard. This is possibly a muddle with Walsingham HER 2022 / Hindringham HER 2078.
A. J. Lawson, 20 February 2012.
Pre February 1996. Metal-detecting.
Found in Baconsthorpe:
1 medieval coin.
2 post-medieval coins.
Identified by J. Davies (NCM), see list in file. No provenance recorded.
P. Watkins (HES), 5 November 2015.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Baconsthorpe. |
| <S3> | Article in Monograph: Pendleton, C. F.. 1999. Bronze Age Metalwork from Northern East Anglia. A study of its distribution and interpretation. IN British Archaeological Report British Series Volume 279. BAR British Series Volume 279. 204. |
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