Record Details

NHER Number:8699
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axehead

Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead was discovered on Ley's Farm in 1963.

Images - none

Location

Parish:BRADENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1963? Leys Farm, Bradenham
Found on farm. Flat copper alloy axehead. Migdale Marnoch tradition very corroded.
See (S1) in the Illustration Library.
E. B. Green (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. TF 90 NW 20.
---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. Bradenham.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Milligan, W.. 1964. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead.. Card. 1:1.

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