Record Details
NHER Number: | 873 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Bronze Age metal object hoard |
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Summary
In 1991 a collection of Bronze Age objects, possibly part of a hoard, was dropped by a lorry turning off Colman Road into Stannard Road during the Ring Road resurfacing. The hoard consisted of a socketed axe, awl, pin and a pair of tweezers
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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Parish: | EARLHAM, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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| NORWICH, NORWICH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1991. Stray Find.
Late Bronze Age hoard dropped by lorry turning off Colman Road into Stannard Road during Ring Road resurfacing etc. therefore could have come from either Earlham parish, or Norwich.
Hoard consists of one socketed axe, one awl, one pin (no head) and one pair of tweezers.
See drawing (S1) and NCM polaroid (S2).
Information from member of the public [1].
Compiled by W. Milligan (NCM) 11 July 1991.
Information from (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 February 2018.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AWL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- PIN (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- TWEEZERS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<S1> | Illustration: Robins, P. 1991. Drawings of Late Bronze Age copper alloy hoard comprising socketed axe, awl, pin and pair of tweezers. Paper. 1:1. |
<S2> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
<S3> | Record Card: NCM Staff. 1973-1989. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card - Norwich. |
Related records - none
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