Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4677 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age spearheads |
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Summary
Two Bronze Age copper alloy socketed loop spearheads were found. The exact nature and location of this discovery are not clear.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Two bronze spearheads with loops on socket.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
Bronze implement unspecified recorded in (S2).
Like Carbrooke NCM.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
One of these objects is shown in a watercolour illustration titled 'Threxton metalwork and flints' produced by Frederick Sandys (1829-1904). This drawing (S3) is held by the NCM (NWHCM : 1951.235.1223.B136 : F) and bares the inscription "Antiquities found a Threxton and now in the cabinet of Thomas Barton Esqr the proprietor of the parish." The second metal object drawn appears to be a late medieval candlestick.
P. Watkins (HES), 25 April 2013.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SPEAR (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. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Cressingham (Little). |
| <S1> | Documentary Source: Various. Additional drawings, engravings, etc. collected by Dawson Turner to illustrate Blomefield's "History of Norfolk"; 1846-1857. Add MS 23053-23062. Vol IX; f.40 (Add MS 23061). |
| <S2> | Publication: 1899. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Sandys, F. Unknown. Threxton metalwork and flints. Paper. |
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