Monument Number 219828 |
| Hob Uid: 219828 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Amesbury
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| Grid Ref : SU1400041000 |
| Summary : Various finds of prehistoric date from unknown locations within Amesbury parish, including Early Bronze Age flanged bronze axes, plus Bronze Age bronze dagger and bronze spearhead; a Beaker, found with an inhumation in an unidentified barrow near Stonehenge; two shale cups; an Iron Age bronze brooch; and a flint implement from Stonehenge described as a flint plane. |
More information : Unlocated BA/IA finds from Amesbury Parish. (1)
A flanged axe from near Stonehenge is in the Lukis collection,
Guernsey.
A flanged axe from between Stonehenge and Fargo (area SU1142 ?)
is in Salisbury Museum.
A decorated flanged bronze axe of Irish type was found on
Stonehenge Down (SE of Stonehenge) in Nov 1952; in Salisbury
Museum.
Bronze dagger; Salisbury Museum.
Two shale cups; Salisbury Museum.
A bronze socketed spearhead with lozenge-faced loops at the base
of the blade and a sharp midrib was ploughed up in 1902; Salisbury
Museum.
La Tene I Bronze brooch ? Phase II. Hull Museum (1).
A Long Necked Beaker with comb impressions, (DM 486), found
with an inhumation in a barrow near Stonehenge: no details known.
A flint plane, from Stonehenge (DM 1475) (2).
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