Record Details

NHER Number:50248
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age and medieval finds.

Summary

Metal detecting in this area during 2007 recovered a Middle Bronze Age palstave, a Late Bronze Age socketed axehead, and a decorative medieval stud.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 26 97
Map Sheet:TM29NE
Parish:SHOTESHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February - March 2007. Metal detecting.
Middle Bronze Age palstave (S1).
See description and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 13 May 2007.

August - September 2007. Metal detecting.
Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment (S2) and medieval ?furniture fitting.
See lists in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 16 October 2007.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Finds

  • PALSTAVE (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • FURNITURE FITTING (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2007. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age palstave.. Film. 1:1.
<S2>Illustration: Gibbons, J.. 2007. Drawing of a Late Bronze Age socketed axe fragment.. Film. 1:1.

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