Poorly Located Find Spot record SPT 086 - Bronze dagger from the Arreton hoard, falsely provinanced to Sproughton

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Bronze dagger from the Arreton hoard, falsely provinanced to Sproughton. Formerly recorded as SPT MISC

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Grid reference TM 12 44 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TM14SW
Civil Parish SPROUGHTON, BABERGH, SUFFOLK

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Bronze dagger, 9.5 inches long, found circa 1908.
Falsely provenanced as coming from Suffolk, actually part of the Arreton Hoard from the Isle of Wight (S1).

Formerly recorded as SPT MISC

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <S1> (No record type): Needham S P, Towards a reconstitution of the Arreton Hoard: a case of faked provenances, Antiq J, 66.
  • <R1> Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TM14SW33,.

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:46AM

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