Poorly Located Find Spot record HAM 036 - Findspot of 5 Iron-Age gold torcs

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Summary

Five gold torcs said to have been ploughed up on the Henham estate about 50 years ago. Formerly recorded as HAM MISC

Location

Grid reference TM 44 78 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TM47NW
Civil Parish WANGFORD WITH HENHAM, WAVENEY, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Five gold torcs said to have been ploughed up on the Henham estate about 50 years ago. Thought to have been brass and slung into a ditch. Teller of story was then a boy and he kept one and mounted it on his bicycle, but sold it shortly afterwards to a scrap metal merchant. Story told by an old man to M J Hardy of Metfield 1984.

Formerly recorded as HAM MISC

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> (No record type): Hardy M J, 1984.

Finds (2)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:46AM

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