Find Spot record MCC6949 - Vicinity of Tiptree

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Looped Bronze Age palstave found in 1959.

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Grid reference TL 8842 1637 (point)
Map sheet TL81NE
Civil Parish TIPTREE, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Looped bronze age palstave found in 1959. Reported in 1961. <1> <3> <5> Find is in Colchester Museum. <2> Find is a Middle Bronze Age, `transitional' type, and was ploughed up near Windmill Hill in 1959. <4>

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  • <1> MENTION: unknown. unknown. SMR.
  • <2> Artifact: Colchester Museum. unknown. ARTEFACT Col Mus. Acc No 85.1961.
  • <3> RECORD SHEET/FORM: Ordnance Survey. unknown. OS cards. TL81NE40, 1976.
  • <4> DESC TEXT: Davies, GMR. 1976. A Palstave from Tolleshunt D'Arcy. No 19, p20.
  • <5> Map: unknown. unknown. MAP Col Mus.

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Nov 3 2015 11:41AM

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