Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7499 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axehead from Buxton Heath |
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Summary
A Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead was ploughed up on Buxton Heath.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1785 2154 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG12SE |
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| Parish: | HEVINGHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1953. Ploughed up. On edge of Buxton Heath.
Flat bronze axe. 183mm long 103mm wide; thin butt; 4.5% tin.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
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
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 12 SE 11. |
| --- | 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. Hevingham. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1957. Archaeological Discoveries in Norfolk 1949-54. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXI pp 395-416. p 397. |
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