Poorly Located Find Spot record IKL 233 - Findspot of a Bronze-Age socketed bronze axehead

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Summary

Socketed bronze axehead from Icklingham in Dr H Fawcett Collection (S1). Formerly recorded as IKL MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 78 74 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL77SE
Civil Parish ICKLINGHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Socketed bronze axehead from Icklingham in Dr H Fawcett Collection (S1). Possibly same as plain socketed axe, 9.3cms long, with encrustations at socket, from Icklingham, sold at Sotherby's 4 July 1932, lot 109 (S2). Fawcett believed to have been collecting in NW Suffolk circa 1940-1950.

Formerly recorded as IKL MISC

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <S1> (No record type): City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, printout of Fawcett Collection, October 1991.
  • <M1> (No record type): Museums file: (S1).
  • <S2> (No record type): Pendleton C, `The Distribution of BA metalwork in NW Suffolk', BA dissertation, Nottingham, 1985, no.

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:35AM

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