Record Details

NHER Number:1744
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead

Summary

A Bronze Age flanged axehead, made of copper alloy.

Images - none

Location

Parish:BURNHAM MARKET, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

About 1932. Stray Find.
Flanged copper alloy axe (10cm long) found by [1] on Sussex Farm (it is unknown if this extends into Brancaster parish?).
Information from record cards (S1), (S2), and (S3).
Seen R. R. Clarke, (NCM) February 1949. Amended by P. Beers (HES), 17 July 2020.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Burnham Market.
<S2>Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S3>Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 84 SW 2.

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