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Description: | A hoard of 35 Late Bronze Age copper-alloy objects. It comprises 15 socketed axeheads of various types and sizes, nine of which are more or less complete, the remainder incomplete due to old breaks. One is much smaller than the remainder, and one has more elaborate moulded decoration extending from the mouth. At least two examples appear to have the remains of casting sprues attached to their mouths and others may have been deliberately broken. In addition there is a fragment from a winged palstave or axe, as well as 4 smaller fragments from the mouths of socketed axes. The axes were found with 15 large fragments of casting 'cake', all dispersed over an area of c.20m and within the plough soil. The bulk of the finds were made on the 26th and 27th of July. Excavation over the area of greatest concentration revealed no discernible archaeological features within which the group may have been buried, with two axes alongside three fragments of cake found in situ resting at the base of the plough soil and on top of the natural beneath. An additional axe and two fragments of cake were recovered by the finder on the 28th. Given the composition of the group, including the casting material, possible unfinished axes and possible deliberately broken axes it is likely that this is a founder's hoard. Further analysis may well reveal additional information relating to the composition and deposition of the hoard. It is of Late Bronze Age date, probably falling within the period of c.1000-800 BC.
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