Record Details
| NHER Number: | 41827 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age and post-medieval finds |
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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
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 06 84 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM08SE |
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| Parish: | BRESSINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| FERSFIELD, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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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. |
Related records - none
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