Record Details
| NHER Number: | 5295 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Feltwell Fen Late Bronze Age Hoard |
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Summary
A large and important Late Bronze Age hoard of twenty one items, including copper alloy tweezers, two spearheads, six socketed axes, gold leaf from an ornament, an amber bead, two boar tusks and fragments of copper alloy cake was found, before 1907.
Images - none
Location
Full description
Pre 1907. Feltwell Fen.
Large and important hoard of Late Bronze Age of twenty one items - axes, razor, tweezers etc.
See full list in file (S1) and (S2).
E. Rose (NAU), 17 May 1990.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- ANIMAL REMAINS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- BEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- BEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- CHISEL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- PERSONAL ORNAMENT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- RAZOR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SCABBARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SPEAR (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- TWEEZERS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Article in Serial: Brown, M. A. and Blin-Stoyle, A. E. 1959. A Sample Analysis of British Middle and Late Bronze Age Material using Optical Spectrometry. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol XXV pp 188-208. p 203. |
| --- | 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. Feltwell [10]. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Piggot, C. M. 1946. The Late Bronze Age Razors of the British Isles. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. Vol XII pp 121-141. p 138. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Monograph: 1953. Guide to Later Prehistoric Antiquities in the British Museum.. p 45. |
| <S2> | Photograph: Ashley, H.. Feltwell Fen Late Bronze Age Hoard. |
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