Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11398 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age stone axe-hammer |
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Summary
In 1976 a Bronze Age stone axe-hammer was dragged up by a tractor-drawn hoe on this site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3048 2655 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32NW |
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| Parish: | WORSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Stray Find.
Dragged up by tractor-drawn hoe:
1 Bronze Age stone axe hammer. 18.6cm x 9.8cm, 8.0cm thick. Slightly waisted perforation, butt battered.
See drawing (S1) and newspaper cutting (S2) in file. Petrology No. N220 (not sliced).
E. Rose (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXE HAMMER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Serial: 1976. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1976. No 23. p 23. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TG 32 NW 17. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gregory, T. 1976. Drawing of a Bronze Age stone axe hammer. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1976. Worstead axe up to 4000 years old. 28 July. |
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