Record Details
| NHER Number: | 22533 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axehead |
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Summary
A flat axehead, dating to the Bronze Age, made of copper alloy.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 0150 1937 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG01NW |
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| Parish: | BILLINGFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
March 1986.
Found on chute when gravel was being quarried in area this NGR.
Flat axe of copper or copper alloy, broken at butt and battered by machinery.
Fresh metal thus exposed is copper coloured.
Otherwise in good condition with no trace of corrosion.
Undecorated.
See (S1)
F. Healy (NAU) 24 April 1986.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAT AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Healy, F.. 1986. Drawing of a Bronze Age copper alloy flat axehead.. Film. 1:1. |
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