Record Details

NHER Number:7423
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze age metal find

Summary

A flat Bronze Age copper alloy axehead was found in the 19th century.

Images - none

Location

Parish:CAWSTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Flat bronze axe of simple form 95mm (3 3/4 inches) long. Exhibited 1849 to Suffolk Institute of Archaeology by J. Warren (S1). (S2) and (S3).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

  • FLAT AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 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. Cawston.
<S1>Article in Serial: 1853. Quarterly Meetings. Proceedings of the Bury & West Suffolk Archaeological Institute. Vol I pp 148-155. p 150.
<S2>Publication: Rye, W. 1909. Catalogue of Antiquities Found Principally in East Anglia. p 21; No 222.
<S3>Publication: Woodward. 1831. Antiquities of East Anglia. p 28.

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