Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31114 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age palstave from Shammer |
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Summary
A Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age looped copper alloy palstave was found. The palstave was unfinished and had not been used.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 831 380 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF83NW |
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| Parish: | NORTH CREAKE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Around 1980 to 1985. Stray find after ploughing.
Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age looped palstave, with trident decoration; 'transitional' type with narrow blade. Like (S1). ?Unused, with surplus metal from casting on the sides and cutting edge not trimmed off.
See (S2).
D. Gurney (NLA), 10 February 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Publication: Norfolk Museums Service. 1966. Bronze Age Metalwork in Norwich Castle Museum. No 22. |
| <S2> | Illustration: White, S.. 1995. Drawing of a Middle/Late Bronze Age looped copper alloy palstave. Paper. 1:1. |
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