Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34508 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age rapier |
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Summary
Metal detecting on the beach in 1994 recovered a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy rapier.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 42 27 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG42NW |
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| Parish: | SEA PALLING, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
June 1994. Found upright on beach in peat and clay bank on boundary between old parishes of Eccles and Palling; mostly in peat. End 15cm (6 inches) below the surface.
Found with metal detector by [1].
Middle Bronze Age rapier. Drawing (S1) in file.
Information from drawing and note at NCM, rediscovered in May 1999, and letter from [2].
E. Rose (NLA), 28 May 1999.
Found close to NHER 32001, but nearer to the sea wall and about 15 metres from it.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 10 November 2000.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- RAPIER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
Related records - none
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