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Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age Hoard.
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Norfolk County Council, Erica Darch, 2011-02-18 16:20:18
Title
Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age Hoard.
Description
English: A Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age hoard.

An incomplete harness mount. A rectangular plate (1mm thick) with a slight rim at the surviving original edge, and with remains of decoration comprising three transverse vertical ribs in shallow relief between two discs, one with a central dot within five concentric grooves, the other a fragment of the outer grooves only. There is an integral loop on the reverse aligned with and adjacent to the surviving original edge. There are old breaks on the two ends with a more recent looking break on the longer edge. Length greater than 30mm, width greater than 18mm. Weighing 3.32 g. Cf. a broadly similar mount found in a hoard dating to the end of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (c.750-600 BC) at Llynfawr, Glamorgan, illustrated in Savory (1980), p.194, fig.46, no.19.

Two joining fragments of the central part of a sword with a pointed oval section and hammer marks on one face. Length greater than 121mm, width 39mm. Weighing 158.37 g.

A fragment of a possible sword. Very corroded, oval-sectioned, battered edges and broken at both ends. Measuring 30 x at least 34mm. Weighs 24.67 g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 750 BC and 600 BC
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FindID: 281105
Old ref: NMS-7B59C7
Filename: 2009_T754e.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/317378
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/317378/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/281105
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