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Description: | A late Bronze Age hoard. No scientific analysis of the finds has been undertaken but it is clear that the artefacts (numbers 1-9) are bronze. The remaining items are complete or fragmentary copper ingots created by smelting copper ores and allowing the molten metal to solidify in the rounded base of the furnace.1. Socketed axe blade fragment2. Complete South-eastern socketed axe (Schmidt & Burgess,1981, The Axes of Scotland and Northern England (Prähistorische Bronzefunde 9.7) Munich, page 212).3. Complete South-eastern socketed axe4. Complete South-eastern socketed axe5. Complete South-eastern socketed axe, variant Shoebury (op. cit., 213-14)6. Complete South-eastern socketed axe, variant Bilton (ibid.,214)7. End-winged axe8-9 Socketed axe blade fragments10-12 Complete copper bun-shaped ingot13-67 Copper ingot fragmentsThe South-eastern socketed axes in the hoard are typical of the Ewart Park phase of the late Bronze Age, dated c.1020-800 BC (Needham et al. 1998 'An independent chronology for British Bronze Age metalwork: the results of the Oxford radiocarbon accelerator programme' Archaeological Journal, 154 for 1997, page 98).
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