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| HER Number: | MDV30219 |
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| Name: | Bronze Age double-looped palstave, found in Chagford parish |
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Summary
It is now in the Russell-Coates museum, Bournemouth. Could be part of the hoard of palstaves found at Quintertown. Palstave, double-looped. Length 164mm, blade width 50mm.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 70 87 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX78NW |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Chagford |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | CHAGFORD |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- National Monuments Record: SX78NW34
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 445557
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX78NW/58
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
AV, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV273798.
For finds at new quarry, chagford see sx78nw/27 and finds at quintertown quarry see sx78nw/51 (av).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV273799.
Pearce, s. M. /bronze age metalwork of sw britain/(1983)436(bar 120). Palstave, double-looped. Length 164mm, blade width 50mm. Now in christchurch museum on loan from the russell-coates museum (pearce).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV273801.
Osa=sx78nw34.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV273802.
Rowlands, m. J. /the production of metalwork in the middle bronze age in southern britain/(1976)301 no 463(bar 31).
Fox, A., 1955, Twenty-Second Report on the Archaeology and Early History of Devon, 320 (Article in Serial). SDV148060.
A Bronze Age double-looped palstave, found in Chagford parish, is 6 1/2 inches long with a tongue shaped moulding above the stop ridge. It is now in the Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth. (Probably part of the hoard found at Quintertown, Chagford in 1868 (SX 78 NW 3).
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV148060 | Article in Serial: Fox, A.. 1955. Twenty-Second Report on the Archaeology and Early History of Devon. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 87. A5 Paperback. 320. |
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| SDV273798 | Migrated Record: AV. |
| SDV273799 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV273801 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV273802 | Migrated Record: |
Associated Monuments
| MDV30220 | Part of: Hoard of palstaves found at New Quarry, Quintertown (Find Spot) |
| MDV30217 | Related to: Palstave found at quarry known as Quarterdown (Find Spot) |
Associated Finds
- FDV4961 - LOOPED PALSTAVE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Jun 24 2022 2:40PM |
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