Record Details

NHER Number:5389
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age spear, River Little Ouse

Summary

A Bronze Age copper alloy spear dredged from the river in 1933.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TL 7268 8665
Map Sheet:TL78NW
Parish:HOCKWOLD CUM WILTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1933. Dredged up from Norfolk bank of Little Ouse about 274m (300 yds) east of Wilton Bridge (C.S. Leaf).
Copper alloy spear ferrule.
(S1) says 182m (200) not 274m (300 yds) and (S2).
R.R. Clarke (NCM)

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

  • SPEAR (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 78 NW 14 [2].
---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.
<S1>Article in Serial: 1935. [unknown]. Cabridge Antiq. Soc. Coll.. Vol XXXV, p 146, pl Xib. p 146; Pl Xib.
<S2>Serial: 1936. Cambridge University Reporter. p 1009. p 109.

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