Record Details

NHER Number:5387
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Prehistoric and Bronze Age daggers, River Little Ouse

Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy dagger and a prehistoric flint dagger have been dredged from the river.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7184 8682
Map Sheet:TL78NW
Parish:HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Dredged.
Copper alloy dagger (CUMAE 46.413) found 1/2 mile below Wilton Bridge.
See (S1), two figured on plate XXV.
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

1972.
Flint dagger found in dredgings from Little Ouse River.
Unusual type of flint ?authentic prehistoric or more recent?
(S2) by T.H. Mck. Clough 1973.
T. Clough (NCM)

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Prehistoric - 1000000 BC to 42 AD)
  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • DAGGER (Undated)
  • DAGGER (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
  • DAGGER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---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. Hockwold-cum-Wilton.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Miscellaneous. Hockwold.
<S1>Article in Serial: 1948. [unknown]. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Collection. Vol XLI, p 78-79. pp 78-79.
<S2>Illustration: Clough, T.. 1973. Drawing of a Prehistoric flint dagger.. Card. 1:1.

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