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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 SW 59 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Socketed bronze axe, Minster |
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Summary
A socketed bronze axe in Liverpool County Museum was reportedly found in Minster in 1819. The axe is octagonal in shape and was bought from a resident of sandwich. The precise location at which this axe was found is unknown. No further information about the axe or its discovery was available. This artefact is one of two bronze axes found in the 19th century in Minster now in Liverpool County Museum (see also TR 36 SW 60).
| Grid Reference: | TR 31 64 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36SW |
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| Parish: | MINSTER, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC (between) to 701 BC (between))
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
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Minster, Thanet District. An octagonal socketed axe found in Minster in c1819 is in Liverpool County Museum, ex Rolfe Collection. A note with the axe states that it was 'bought from E.F.S. Reader' [of Sandwich]. (1-3)
<1> Cat Prehist Metalwork Mersey Co Mus 1980 20 illus (S Nicholson) (OS Card Reference). SKE38732.
<2> VCH Kent 1 1908 336 (G Clinch) (OS Card Reference). SKE50840.
<3> Anc Bronze Imps of GB 1881 129 129 (J Evans) (OS Card Reference). SKE33039.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Cat Prehist Metalwork Mersey Co Mus 1980 20 illus (S Nicholson). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 1 1908 336 (G Clinch). |
| <3>XY | OS Card Reference: Anc Bronze Imps of GB 1881 129 129 (J Evans). [Mapped feature: #66364 find, ] |
