TR 16 NW 13 - Looped and socketed axe dredged up with two others a mile off Whitstable

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Findspot record TR 16 NW 13 - Looped and socketed axe dredged up with two others a mile off Whitstable

Summary

A Late Bronze Age socketed bronze axe found in the sea off Whitstable. It was donated to Maidstone Museum by a Mr R Cooke in 1916, around the same time that 2 further axes (see TR 16 NW 14) were sold to the museum by a Mr Wells. All 3 were said to have been brought up together by oyster dredger from a spot nearly a mile from the shore. However, there is no firm evidence to link this axe with those reported by Mr Wells.

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Grid reference	TR 10 66 (point) LO
Map sheet	TR16NW
Civil Parish	WHITSTABLE, CANTERBURY, KENT
County	KENT
District	CANTERBURY, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

FINDSPOT (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 1200 BC to 701 BC)

Full Description

<1> Maidstone Museum Arch Gaz (Anon undated) (OS Card Reference). SKE46406.

<2> F1 CRW 17.09.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42854.

<3> Field report for monument TR 16 NW 13 - September, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5540.

<4> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record, 13 (Index). SWX11836.

Sources/Archives (4)

<1> SKE46406 OS Card Reference: Maidstone Museum Arch Gaz (Anon undated).
<2>XY SKE42854 OS Card Reference: F1 CRW 17.09.63. [Mapped feature: #44193 Find, ]
<3> SKE5540 Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 16 NW 13 - September, 1963.
<4> SWX11836 Index: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Canterbury Sites and Monuments Record. 13.