Record Details
NHER Number: | 7196 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead, Late Bronze Age hammer, Iron Age coin and post-medieval metal objects |
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Summary
A Mesolithic flint tranchet axehead was found on the surface of this field in 1969. Subsequent metal-detecting recovered Bronze Age, Iron Age and post-medieval finds.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TG 04 22 |
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Map Sheet: | TG02SW |
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Parish: | FOXLEY, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1969. Stray Find.
Found on surface by [1] at approximately [2]:
1 Mesolithic chipped flint axe. Donated to Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1969.392 : A). Information from (S1). This object was previously incorrectly recorded by both the NCM and the NHER as Neolithic. Listed as a miscellaneous axehead in (S2) but described in (S3) as a tranchet axehead.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 August 2014.
October 2003. Metal detecting.
Iron Age gold coin.
Information from PAS import.
A. Cattermole (HES), 18 August 2011.
August - September 2008. Metal detecting.
Site Extended - previous extent saved under previous event. See [3]
Late Bronze Age socketed hammer (S4) and a Post-Medieval crotal bell.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 7 October 2008.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Late Iron Age - 100 BC to 42 AD)
- FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- TRANCHET AXEHEAD (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- HAMMER (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- COIN (Late Iron Age - 50 BC to 0 AD)
- COIN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- CROTAL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
--- | Serial: 1969. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1969. No 16. p 6. |
--- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 02 SW 15. |
--- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. Foxley. |
<S2> | Monograph: Wymer, J. J. and Bonsall, C. J. (eds). 1977. Gazetteer of Mesolithic Sites in England and Wales with a Gazetteer of Upper Palaeolithic Sites in England and Wales. Council for British Archaeology Research Report. No. 20. p 206. |
<S3> | Archive: R. Jacobi. -. Jacobi Archive. 10242; 10243. |
<S4> | Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2008. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed copper alloy hammer.. Film. 1:1. |
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