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Potential 1300 - 850 BC Bronze Age foundry hoard - reported to museumThese finds have developed on a new site we only started searching from Sept 2025. These are from multiple finders and developed slowly into this potential hoard. A large part of this field was too high in crops so not searched properly yet. No doubt more will be found when we continued searching again. Metalwork was, as the name of the period suggests, a key element of Bronze Age life.The first bronze objects were simple flat axes and daggers but more specialised tools, weapons and ornaments appeared in the course of the 2nd millennium. As well as their practical value metal objects were imbued with symbolic power, expressed through their deliberate deposition, either singly or in groups (hoards).The largest hoard ever found in England came from Isleham, Cambridgeshire, where a large ceramic vessel containing 6,500 pieces of cut-up bronze items and casting debris had been buried in a ditch on the edge of a wetland area.The photo shows a smaller hoard from Ebbsfleet, Kent, which includes three Late Bronze Age socketed axes.
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| 1300 BC Bronze Age socketed axe head - 41mm l x 34.7mm w x 13.3mm T | |
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| 1300 BC Bronze Age socketed axe head - 62.5 mm L x 32.5 mm w x 21.8mm T | |
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1300 BC Bronze Age socketed axe head 55.24mm L x 32mm W x 11.42 mm T |
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1300 BCBronze Age socketed chisel 400mm L x 27mm W x 15.88 mm T |
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Large Bronze Age ingot 82.81 mm W x 18.8 mm T x51.3 mm H |
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Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum |
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Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 166g, 40mm L x 34mm H x 24.8mm T |
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Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 17g, 33 mm L x 14.8mm W x 11.3mm T |
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Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 13.4g, 21.8 mm T |
Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 91.6g, 47mm L x 38mm H x 15.9mm T |
Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 45mm L x 36mm H x 23mm T, 172g |
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Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 3 63g, 57 mm H x 48mm L x 29mm W
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Bronze Age ingots and casting waste from Axe hoard reported to museum 101g, 34mm L x 35mm H x 21.8 nm T |
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