Monument record LKH 184 - Sharpe's Corner (BA)

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Summary

Barbed and tanged arrowhead, side looped spearhead fragment and other flint arrowheads & axeheads.

Location

Grid reference	Centred TL 708 834 (160m by 160m)
Map sheet	TL78SW
Civil Parish	LAKENHEATH, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

ARTEFACT SCATTER (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1001 BC)

Full Description

April 1997: Surface find of honey coloured barbed and tanged arrowhead with only one barb. Probably originally of normal, two barbed, form but reworked (?) following breakage. Earlier finds, by various individuals, said to include arrowheads and axeheads (S1).
1999: Metal detected side looped spearhead fragment, butt half, 6cms long (details & outline drawing in (S1)).
Also Neo & PMed.

Sources/Archives (2)

<S1> SSF17723 (No record type): Rolph P (ECDS) per SAU (CP & GT), finds reports, May 1997 & May 1999.
<M1> SSF50072 Unpublished document: Suffolk Archaeological Service. Parish Files. (S1).

Finds (3)

FSF20809: BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 1501 BC?)
FSF20810: LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC? to 701 BC?)
FSF25305: SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)

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None recorded

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Record last edited

Mar 25 2003 3:33AM