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Description: | Bronze Age metalwork, 205 socketed axes from hoards at Foulsham (141), Norwich, North Elmham and Aylsham
The Bronze Age Collection is comparable in importance to the national collection, reflecting the prominence of northern East Anglia, and the West Norfolk Fen Edge in particular, as one of the major metalworking areas, especially in the Late Bronze Age, as the amount of bronze metalwork in circulation increased. It also demonstrates that the area was one of considerable wealth. it includes the largest Bronze Age metalwork collection in England outside London.
Bronze Age material mainly from Norfolk, but also from north Suffolk, including pottery, metalwork, copper alloy ingots and stone. The pottery includes Beaker Culture sherds and complete beakers, and Late Bronze Age cremation urns. The metalwork includes tools, jewellery and twenty hoards (mainly Late Bronze Age) of axes, weapons and ornaments, mostly from the West Norfolk Fen Edge, reflecting local varieties of individual metal types from sites within Norfolk. The ingots are mostly from sites in the heart of Norfolk. The stone includes flint arrowheads, daggers and scrapers, showing that the previous technology was still used for everyday tools.
The collection is supported by a collection of twenty plaster casts of some of the socketed axes from the Foulsham hoard.
The collection is supported by a collection of 20 early 19th century watercolours and etchings of antiquities which form part of the fine art collection | Format: | 1120 artefacts and objects | Subjects: | Weapons Metalworking Jewellery Archaeology Archaeological objects Tools Metalwork (product) Bronze age | Temporal: | Bronze age 2500BC- 700BC | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7185 | Format: | 1120 artefacts and objects | Go to resource |
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