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Description: | CURATOR'S REPORTDescription1. Socketed axe - South-eastern type. Sub-rectangular double mouth moulding of which the upper moulding is prominent whilst the lower gives rise to the loop on the side of the body. The body is plain and undecorated with relatively few pits running down to a flared blade. One blade corner has broken and corroded away. The patina is light brown with light green corrosionL: 99.0mm; W: 39.0-48.0mm; Wt: 331.1g (with earth remaining in the socket)2. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface. Dark green patina with green corrosion with a pitted surface.L: 117.0mm; W: 67.0mm; Th: 17.0-28.0mm; Wt: 830.7g.3. Bronze fragment. Flat cast surfaces with broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 28.0mm; W: 26.0mm; Th: 14.0mm; Wt: 69.1g.4. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface with heavy green corrosion.L: 63.0mm; W: 55.0mm; Th: 12.0-23.0mm; Wt: 328.7g.5. Bronze fragment. Light green patina, heavily pitted with heavy corrosion.L: 43.0mm; W: 36.0mm; Th: 20.0mm; Wt: 114.0g.6. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface. Dark green patina with green corrosion with a pitted surface.L: 41.0mm; W: 38.0mm; Th: 29.0mm; Wt: 269.5g.7. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface. Dark green patina with green corrosion with a pitted surface.L: 88.0mm; W: 53.0mm; Th: 12.0-33.0mm; Wt: 521.7g.8. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Curving cast surface. Light green patina with green corrosion with a pitted surface.L: 64.0mm; W: 43.0mm; Th: 8.0-36.0mm; Wt: 366.6g.9. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Brown patinaL: 53.0mm; W: 41.0mm; Th: 8.0-23.0mm; Wt: 161.2g.10. Bronze fragment. Circular with flat cast curved surfaces. Light brown patina.L: 57.0mm; W: 48.0mm; Th: 5.0-16.0mm; Wt: 201.3g.11. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 48.0mm; W: 30.0mm; Th: 14.0mm; Wt: 107.6g.12. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 49.0mm; W: 36.0mm; Th: 13.0mm; Wt: 107.4g.13. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Flat cast surfaces with broken edges. Very light green/brown patina with green corrosion.L: 92.0mm; W: 68.0mm; Th: 22.0mm; Wt: 379.1g.14. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion and heavily pitted surfacesL: 77.0mm; W: 58.0mm; Th: 27.0mm; Wt: 481.0g.15. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Flat cast surfaces with broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 71.0mm; W: 48.0mm; Th: 4.0-22.0mm; Wt: 255.4g.16. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 81.0mm; W: 54.0mm; Th: 7.0-24.0mm; Wt: 334.8g.17. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 71.0mm; W: 55.0mm; Th: 5.0-18.0mm; Wt: 301.1g.18. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 65.0mm; W: 42.0mm; Th: 2.0-23.0mm; Wt: 307.4g.19. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Brown patina with green corrosion.L: 58.0mm; W: 57.0mm; Th: 23.0mm; Wt: 339.2g.20. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion. ]L: 65.0mm; W: 56.0mm; Th: 23.0mm; Wt: 427.6g.21. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 41.0mm; W: 28.0mm; Th: 21.0mm; Wt: 78.0g.22. Bronze plano-convex ingot fragment. Heavily pitted cast surfaces with broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 81.0mm; W: 67.0mm; Th: 22.0mm; Wt: 416.5g.23. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 45.0mm; W: 43.0mm; Th 14.0mm; Wt: 141.6g.24. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 45.0mm; W: 43.0mm; Th 14.0mm; Wt: 257.7g.25. Bronze fragment. Broken edges with smooth surfaces. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 43.0mm; W: 10.0mm; Th 29.0mm; Wt: 195.1g.26. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 31.0mm; W: 35.0mm; Th: 21.0mm; Wt: 86.5g.27. Bronze fragment. Broken edges. Light green patina with green corrosion.L: 86.0mm; W: 58.0mm; Th: 18.0mm; Wt: 319.3g.DiscussionThe Southeastern socketed axe can be further classified as type A1 Plain (Needham 1990, 28 fig. 2) and broadly dates the hoard to the Ewart Park metal phase (1000-800 BC) (Needham et al. 1997). The remaining objects are bronze fragments of varying size. Several of these appear to have been part of plano-convex ingots. Thus, though the edges are corroded, the forms, patinas and dimensions suggest that certain fragments may have been part of the same ingot - these are nos. 22 and 16; nos. 6 and 8; nos. 7 and 17; and nos. 4 and 15.The placing of apparently scrap metal in the landscape is well documented during this period and has been well researched in Norfolk and Suffolk during this period (e.g. Pendleton 1999). Traditional interpretations see these as metalworkers reserves stored for later use. However, the failure to recover so many stored metal objects implies that recovery may not always have been the aim. The only association with the hoard consists of two fragments of thick irregular pottery/stone.ConclusionThough contextual details are sparse, it is probable that these objects formed a single original deposit or hoard dispersed through the actions of the plough seems very likely. This material is eligible as Treasure under the new Treasure Order (2002) being a base-metal prehistoric find containing two or more metal objects.
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