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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 16 NE 13 |
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| Type of record: | Findspot |
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| Name: | Middle Bronze Age palstave, Herne Bay |
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Summary
M.B.A. palstave from the junction of Reculver Road and Sea View Road, Beltinge, Herne Ba
| Grid Reference: | TR 1944 6793 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR16NE |
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| Parish: | HERNE BAY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Associated Finds
- AXEHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC to 1001 BC)
Full description
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On exhibition in Herne Bay Museum is a palstave found about 40 years ago while a gate post was being erected at the junction of Reculver Road and Sea View Road, Beltinge, Herne Bay, at TR 19446793. It is heavily corroded and five and a half inches long and two and a half inches across the cutting edge. (In the Dr. A. Bowes Collection) No further details are known about the findspot (1). Additional references (2,3).
<1> Inf: Mr Gough Curator Herne Bay Mus (OS Card Reference). SKE44418.
<2> F1 ASP 29.11.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42341.
<3> Field report for monument TR 16 NE 13 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5521.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Inf: Mr Gough Curator Herne Bay Mus. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 29.11.63. |
| <3>XY | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 NE 13 - November, 1963. [Mapped feature: #44122 Find, ] |
