Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4031 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axehead |
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Summary
A Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead, found in 1962.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 8229 1764 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF81NW |
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| Parish: | CASTLE ACRE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
May 1962. Stray Find.
Picked up on ploughed field by [1]:
1 Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. See drawing (S1). 10.2cms long, 5.3 cms wide.
In possession of [2].
Information from (S2). This discovery was reported in (S3) and is also recorded by (S4).
According to (S5) another looped and socketed axehead had been found nearby by [2] at some time during the early 1950s (at [3]). This record was made in 1972 and it is therefore possible that this was actually a reference to the axehead that had been reported in 1962.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 7 April 2016.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [Norwich Castle Museum staff]. 1962. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Castle Acre. |
| <S3> | Serial: 1962. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1962. No 9. p 2. |
| <S4> | Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index. |
| <S5> | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 81 NW 9. |
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