Record Details
| NHER Number: | 1101 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Hunstanton Middle Bronze Age hoard and Mesolithic flint blade |
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Summary
In 1974 a Middle Bronze Age hoard and a Mesolithic flint blade were discovered. The hoard of copper alloy objects comprised a palstave, a torc, a neck ring, a pin and a bracelet. It was found after a drainage ditch was recut.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF64SE |
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| Parish: | OLD HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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| xHUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January/February 1974. Stray Find.
Found on rough grazing near coast, in the side of a newly cut dyke by [1]:
'Ornament Horizon' Bronze Age hoard comprising palstave, torc, necklet, pin, bracelet. See drawing (S1).
The torc, the necklet and the palstave are now held by the King's Lynn Museum (KILLM : 1974.9.1-3).
Information from (S2).
See published article (S3) for further details. This discovery was also reported in (S4).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 18 February 2018.
KLM 6 inch map (S5) gives location of this hoard at [2] but A. Lawson (NAU) says there is no doubt that his reference is accurate, and their map is wrong.
See notes in file.
E. Rose (NAU).
Also found by [1] in same year:
1 Mesolithic broken flint blade.
Donated to the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1975.417). Information from (S6).
A. Lawson (NAU), 12 to 15 February 1974.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Associated Finds
- BLADE (Mesolithic - 10000 BC to 4001 BC)
- BRACELET (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- HOARD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- NECK RING (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- PALSTAVE (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- PIN (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
- TORC (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Map: Finder's Map.. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Photograph: 2518/C/4. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| --- | Photograph: AJL11.74,HY3-6,8-12,HW27-35. |
| <S1> | Illustration: [King's Lynn Museum staff]. 1974. Drawing of a Middle Bronze Age copper alloy hoard comprising palstave, torc, necklet, pin and bracelet (before cleaning). Paper. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Hunstanton. |
| <S3> | Article in Monograph: Lawson, A. 1979. A Late Middle Bronze Age Hoard from Hunstanton, Norfolk. Bronze Age Hoards: Some Finds Old and New. Burgess, C. and Coombs, D. (eds). BAR (British Series) No 67 pp 42-92. |
| <S4> | Serial: 1974. Council for British Archaeology Group 7 Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1974. No 21. p 5. |
| <S5> | Map: King's Lynn Museum. KLM 6 inch Record Map. |
| <S6> | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Mesolithic. |
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