Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7923 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age axes (Diss, poorly located) |
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Summary
A Bronze Age flanged axehead and palstave, made of copper alloy, found before 1853.
Images - none
Location
| Parish: | DISS, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Pre 1853.
2 copper alloy celts.
See (S1).
(S2) lists a palstave from Diss 15.9cm long by 4.1cm wide as 'lost?', but no source or details are given.
Is this one of the above?
E. Rose (NAU) 28 January 1982.
Haft-flanged axe from Diss in Wellcome Collection (British Museum (Prehistoric and Romano British Antiquities), possibly one of above.
A. J. Lawson (NAU) October 1982.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLANGED AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
- PALSTAVE (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. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Diss. |
| <S1> | Documentary Source: Manning, C. R. 1853. Catalogue of Antiquities found in the County of Norfolk. f. 16. |
| <S2> | Monograph: Rowlands, M. J. 1976. The Organisation of Middle Bronze Age Metalworking. British Archaeological Report. No 31. No 741. |
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