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Summary - not yet available

Monument Type(s):

• FINDSPOT (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 1001 BC)

Associated Finds:

• HOARD (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 1001 BC)
• PALSTAVE (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 1001 BC)
• SPEARHEAD (Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 1001 BC)

Full description

1. Palstave and bronze spear found by Clarke of Burwell.
The bronze spearhead has a blade similar to that of a dagger. It has a narrow tang attached to the base, which has a hole at the end.
2. BA palstave and spear found in Burwell Fen.
3. Possible Late Early Bronze Age hoard, consisting of 2 items, an Arreton type spearhead and flanged axe.

4, Bronze Age fling spear, palstave and spear, Neolithic axes, Iron Age and Samian sherds found at Burwell. (No find spots or dates of finding given)

<1> Greenwell, W. and Parker Brewis, W., 1909, The origin, evolution and classification of the bronze spear-head in Great Britain and Ireland. Archaeologia 61 part 2: 439-72 (Article in serial). SCB1181.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 1962, CBA Group 7 Bulletin 9, 1 (Serial). SCB1995.

<3> Pendleton, C., 1999, Bronze Age Metalwork in Northern East Anglia. A study of its distribution and interpretation, p. 201 (Monograph). SCB19333.

<4> ANON, 1963, Bulletin of the British Archaeological Association (Article in serial). SCB61980.

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