Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25795 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age palstave and rapier |
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Summary
A Bronze Age palstave was found during potato picking in 1990, and metal detecting in 2009 recovered a fragment of a rapier and a part polished axehead.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 08 14 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01SE |
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| Parish: | HOCKERING, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
16 or 17 July 1990. Found when picking potatoes by hand in small hollow, possibly ploughed out clay pit, now ploughed field.
Palstave. Of haft flanged type (Rowlands Class I).
Length 135mm, width of blade 64mm, width of butt 22mm.
Shield pattern at base of blade. Rain decoration on shield and butt on both sides. Badly pitted and with later scratch (from plough?) across blade.
See (S1 and S2).
Seen by E. Rose, R. Rickett and D. Gurney (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 18 July 1990.
Amended by E.B. Green (NCM) 5 March 1991
February- March 2009. Metal detecting
Bronze Age rapier, (S3).
See description in file
A. Rogerson (NLA) 24 April 2009
April- May 2009. Metal detecting
Part polished axehead.
See list in file
A. Rogerson, (NLA), 24 June 2009
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Associated Finds
- POLISHED AXEHEAD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
- PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Publication: British Museum. 2011. Treasure Act Annual Report 2009. p xiv. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Rose, E.. 1990. Sketch of a Bronze Age palstave.. Paper. Unknown. |
| <S2> | Illustration: Gurney, D.. 1990. Drawing of a Bronze Age palstave.. Paper. 1:1. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2009. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age rapier. Find Illustration. Film. 1:1. |
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