Record Details

NHER Number:25142
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Neolithic axe and Bronze Age sword from Hockwold Fen

Summary

A Neolithic votive stone axehead and the tip of a Middle to Late Bronze Age sword found in Hockwold Fen.

Images - none

Location

Parish:HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Items from (S1).
Gabbro 'votive axehead' 121 mm long.
Tip of Middle Bronze Age or Late Bronze Age bronze sword, broken in antiquity.
Full details of (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NAU) 13 March 1989.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • CEREMONIAL OBJECT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
  • SWORD (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Publication: 1988. Fox's Sale Catalogue of Antiquities. No 5.

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