Record Details

NHER Number:28714
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Bronze Age axehead

Summary

Metal detecting recovered a large Early Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead with punched decoration on the flat edges.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 21 04
Map Sheet:TG20SW
Parish:KESWICK, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1991. Metal detecting finds.
Large flat axe. Class 4 - no true low flanges. Middle of Early Bronze Age. Punched decoration on blade faces - central flared panel with flanking, plain linear zones and further decorated bands inside edges.
See (S1).
Identified by S. Needham (British Museum).
W. Milligan (NCM), 4 December 1991.

Part of large scatter NHER 32108.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Finds Illustrations.

Related records

32108Related to: Multi-period finds (Find Spot)
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