Record Details
| NHER Number: | 37104 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bradenham Green Late Bronze Age hoards |
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Summary
An NAU excavation as part of the watching brief revealed a shallow pit containing the well-preserved remains of a probable Late Bronze Age metalworker's hoard of scrap metal. The hoard contained twenty-seven objects including socketed axes, gouges, a spearhead, a chisel, an awl and fragments of a sword, knife and vessel.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | Not displayed |
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| Map Sheet: | TF90NW |
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| Parish: | BRADENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
3 May 2002. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of Anglian Water pipeline (North Pickenham to West Bradenham Supply Main).
Shallow pit containing the well-preserved remains of a probable Late Bronze Age metalworker's hoard of scrap metal. The hoard belongs to the Late Bronze Age Ewart Park metalworking tradition and comprises 30 objects of which nine are complete and another one is near-complete. The total weight of the hoard is 1.74 kg and it includes socketed axes, gouges, a spearhead, a chisel, an awl and fragments of a sword, knife and vessel. The hoard is significant as all of the objects were found together in situ, apparently undisturbed until their discovery during these excavations.
No other features were identified in the vicinity of the hoard.
See published article (S1) and assessment report (S2) for further details. This discovery is also noted in (S3).
See NHER 37106 for details of unstatified finds recovered along the rest of the pipeline during the watching brief.
J. Allen (NLA), 9 May 2002 and A. Cattermole (HES), 20 July 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2015.
March 2018. Metal-detecting. [1].
Late Bronze Age hoard of the Ewart Park metalworking tradition recovered from an undisturbed deposit. The field had recently been ploughed for the first time in living memory, so this hoard must be considered as an additional discrete hoard to that recovered in 2002.
The hoard consists of 8 Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads and fragments, a socketed gouge, socketed spearheads, a sword hilt and blade fragment, and a sheet metal fragment.
Information from PAS import.
The Late Bronze Age hoard was submitted as possible Treasure, disclaimed and returned to the finder (Ref: 2018 T176).
E. McDonald (HES), 1 May 2019.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- METAL WORKING SITE? (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- PIT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- SAMPLE (Unknown date)
- BURNT FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
- CHISEL (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- DIRK (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- GOUGE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- KNIFE (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- PIN (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SWORD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- HOARD (Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 900 BC to 600 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Hinds, K. and Bates, S.. 2010. A Late Bronze Age Hoard from Bradenham. Norfolk Archaeology. vol XLVI, part I, pp 84-91. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Bates, S. 2003. Assessment Report and Updated Project Design for Archaeological Excavations and Watching Brief on the North Pickenham to West Bradenham Supply Mains, Norfolk. Norfolk Archaeological Unit. 825. |
| <S3> | Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 2003. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk, 2002. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIV Pt II pp 368-384. p 376. |
Related records
| 37106 | Part of: Multi-period finds (Find Spot) |
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