Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11800 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age stone find |
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Summary
A Bronze Age stone axehammer was found in 1976.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 867 884 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL88NE |
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| Parish: | CROXTON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1976. Stray Find.
Found on surface, near edge of field:
1 Bronze Age large stone axe hammer, 24.2cm long, 9.5cm maximum width with oval shaft-hole. Butt much battered. Petrology number N223. See drawing (S1).
Information via Thetford Museum, which subsequently purchased this object (THEHM : 1977.363).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 3 August 2014.
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
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 88 NE 13. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Gregory, T. 1976. Drawing of a Bronze Age large stone axe hammer. Card. 1:1. |
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