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CHER Number:00779
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Bronze Age axe hammer, Gravel Pits Field

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 173 764
Parish:Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds:

  • AXE (TOOL) (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

O1, (Corner Farm TL/17--/76--). Large BA axe hammer found, now in Norris Museum, St Ives.
O2, Mrs. Rowley, the former owner of Corner Farm, said that the axe was found in a field called "Gravel Pits", TL/174-/764- by Mr. N Ball, who sold it to Dr Garrood; Mr. Ball is in an old peoples' home in Huntingdon and was not approached.
O3, Grey stone, with cylindrical perforation, length 203mm, width 84mm.


1960, OS 6" (Map). SCB16353.

<2> Baird, J., Field Investigator Comments, 24/5/71 (Verbal communication). SCB62256.

Sources and further reading

<S1>Map: 1960. OS 6".
<2>Verbal communication: Baird, J.. Field Investigator Comments. 24/5/71.

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