Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2314 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axehead from southwest of Field Barn |
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Summary
A Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axehead was found. 'Reddish-brown' pottery was found in the adjacent field.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 767 230 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF72SE |
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| Parish: | LITTLE MASSINGHAM, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1951. About 1 mile west of Peddar's Way and southwest of Field Barn.
Socketed facetted bronze axehead 102mm long 47mm wide.
See (S1).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).
'Reddish brown pottery' found in 'next' field but not preserved.
E. Rose (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- POT (Undated)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Archive: British Museum. 1913 onwards. Bronze Age Index. |
| --- | Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TF 72 SE 1. |
| --- | 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. Massingham. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Clarke, R. R. 1957. Archaeological Discoveries in Norfolk 1949-54. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXI Pt IV pp 395-416. p 398. |
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