Record Details

NHER Number:41827
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age and post-medieval finds

Summary

Metal-detecting in 2005 and 2015 recovered an Early Bronze Age flanged axehead, an incomplete Middle Bronze Age dirk or rapier and a post-medieval coin.

Images

  • Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age dirk from NHER 41827  © Norfolk County Council

Location

Grid Reference:TM 06 84
Map Sheet:TM08SE
Parish:BRESSINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
FERSFIELD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Before 13 June 2005. Metal detecting.
Early Bronze Age flanged axe (S1).
1 post-medieval coin of Mary I.
See list in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 July 2005.

April 2015. Metal-detecting. Elden Tours, Field JO8. [1].
Middle Bronze Age incomplete dirk or rapier (S2).
Information from PAS import.
Site extended to whole field. Previously mapped as a point at [2].
A. Beckham (HES), 24 June 2015 and P. Watkins (HES), 13 May 2024.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • FINDSPOT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds

  • FLANGED AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
  • DIRK (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • COIN (16th Century - 1553 AD to 1554 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2005. Drawing of an Early Bronze Age flanged axehead. Film. 1:1.
<S2>Illustration: Ashley, S. J. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age dirk. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1.

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