Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4597 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age palstave and axehead |
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Summary
During the period 1847-53 a Bronze Age palstave and axehead were recovered from Sporle and Palgrave. These supposedly came from the boundary between south and north Pickenham but the exact location has not been determined.
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Location
| Parish: | SPORLE WITH PALGRAVE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Boundary between south and north Pickenham.
Ribbed palstave with converging lines below stop-ridge, looped (174mm long).
Held by NCM, formerly part of Beloe Collection. See (S1), (S2) and (S3).
(Clarke's Class III) (Bryant says 1847 or 1851 - E. Rose (NAU)).
Fine bronze celt from here according to E. Farrer 1853 (D. R. Manning Collection Antiquities).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PALSTAVE (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 80 NE 31. |
| --- | 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. Sporle. |
| <S1> | Publication: Norwich Castle Museum. 1910. Catalogue of Antiquities in Norwich Castle Museum. |
| <S2> | Article in Serial: Beloe, E. M. 1896. The Padders' Way and its Attendant Roads. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiqarian Society. Vol IX (New Series Vol III) pp 77-95. p 89. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Clark, J. G. D. and Godwin, H. 1940. A Late Bronze Age Find near Stuntney, Isle of Ely. Antiquaries Journal. Vol XX pp 52-71. p 66. |
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