Bronze Age Artefacts Found 1932

Find Spot record MLI40079 -

Bronze Age artefacts found in

Horsington parish

Summary

Bronze Age artefacts found in Horsington parish but

as the map (right) shows, the location is at the very

edge of the parish near the river.

Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 801 BC)

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Full Description

A Bronze Age socketed axe (broken), with three ribs, found at Horsington Holmes in 1932, now in the City and County Museum (accession no.55.32). Davey records this socketed axe with a grid reference of TF 160 660. This is a general centralised grid reference for Horsington Holmes and the findspot of this axe is unknown. {1}{2}{3}{4} A flanged axe (accession no.54.56 in City and County Museum), and a broken spear of middle to late Bronze Age date (accession no.55.56), said to have been found at Horsington. In a letter (dated 07/02/1957) in the old museum file the donator of these objects says that he obtained them from a gentleman from Coningsby who came by them from unknown previous owners. He could only say that they were originally found by a farm labourer during the course of his work at Horsington. The old museum record card suggests that the 1932 axe and the spearhead may have formed part of a hoard but the evidence for this is seemingly based only on the fact that both are broken and both were found in Horsington parish; it is pure surmise. Davey records the flanged axe as a looped palstave. {2}{3}{4}

Sources/Archives (4)

<1> SLI2570 Index: OS CARD INDEX. HORSINGTON. TF16NE18,1964, SEAMAN B H.
<2> SLI499 Article in Serial: PETCH, D.F.. 1957. 'Archaeological Notes for 1956' in Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers. VOL 7.
<3> SLI3097 Index: SMR FILE HORSINGTON. HORSINGTON. TF 16 NE: AF.
<4> SLI274 Article in Serial: P.J. Davey. 1973. 'Bronze Age Metalwork from Lincolnshire' in Archaeologia. vol.104, p.74, Fig.11.113 [socketed axe]; p.68, Fig.7.71 [looped palstave]; p.80, Fig.18.189 [spear].

Map

No mapped location recorded.