Poorly Located Find Spot record PLS 067 - Bronze age flat axe, Loose or Loss Field

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Summary

Flat bronze axe - chisel fragment, ancient? butt break. Formerly recorded as PLS MISC

Location

Grid reference	TL 98 39 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet	TL93NE
Civil Parish	POLSTEAD, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

Full Description

Flat bronze axe - chisel fragment, ancient? butt break. Length 5.55(+)cms, Needham Class 4. Found in field near Shoulder of Mutton Inn circa 1918 - 1920. Presented to IPSMG by GMAJ Woods, Oak Cottage, Polstead in 1939 (S1)(S2).

Formerly recorded as PLS MISC

Sources/Archives (2)

<S1> SSF50070 Index: Ipswich Museum. IPSMG card. IPSMG, card 1939-144, 1939.
<S2> SSF11828 (No record type): Needham S P, The EBA axeheads of central S England, upub PhD thesis, Cardiff, 1983, 352.

Finds (2)

FSF13023: FLAT AXEHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
FSF13024: CHISEL (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:46AM