Record Details

NHER Number:16996
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age flat axehead

Summary

During 1963-4 a Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead was found in the field here.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7729 2980
Map Sheet:TF72NE
Parish:BIRCHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Spring or Winter 1963-4. Found in growing crop.
Flat or flanged bronze axe.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 30 January 1981.

This is a flat axe.
A. Lawson (NAU) July 1981.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Serial: 1968. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1968. No 15. p 7.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 NE 21.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1>Map: King's Lynn Museum. KLM 6 inch Record Map.

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