Record Details
| NHER Number: | 12508 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age copper alloy palstave |
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Summary
A decorated Bronze Age copper alloy palstave was found in about 1947.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3137 0397 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG30SW |
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| Parish: | ROCKLAND ST MARY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
About 30 years before 1977.
Dug up in agricultural garden (now a school playing field). Looped palstave with shield-and-stem ornaments, narrow blade, splayed cutting edge. In hafting slot mass of corrosion with ?wood fibres.
Drawing (S1) in the Illustration Library.
Informant claims that a pot was found at the same place and time and sent to NCM for repairs, but no record of it there.
May be the same as NHER 10296.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- POT (Undated)
- PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
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: Gregory, T.. 1977. Drawing of a Bronze Age palstave.. Card. 1:1. |
Related records
| 10296 | Related to: Bronze Age copper alloy looped palstave (Find Spot) |
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