Record Details

NHER Number:19143
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Middle Bronze Age dagger

Summary

A Middle Bronze Age dagger, made of copper alloy, found by metal detecting.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TG 21 24
Map Sheet:TG22SW
Parish:BRAMPTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

1983. Found with metal detecting.
Middle Bronze Age dagger, probably reused from rapier blade, single rivet hole, assymetrical section.
Broken into 2 pieces recently but sound condition.
Dark green and brown patina, small areas bright green corrosion.
45.3 grm.
Identified and drawn by A. Lawson (NAU)
E. B. Green (NCM) 23 February 1983.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds

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

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Illustration: Finds Illustrations.
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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