Isleham Hoard
The Isleham Hoard is a hoard from the Bronze Age , the 1959 in Isleham southeast of Ely in eastern English county of Cambridgeshire was found. It consists of more than 6,500 pieces of worked and raw bronze . The hoard is the largest Bronze Age find discovered in England.
It consists of axes , decorative equipment (especially horse harness), daggers , knives , arrows, armor, swords , spearheads and fragments of bronze leaf, which date from the Wilburton-Wallington phase of the Late Bronze Age (around 1000 BC). The sword handles have holes where rivets held wooden handle scales. The fittings were usually made of bronze. Exceptions are those made of silver or gold, which are probably assigned to dignitaries. Most of the objects have been moved to St. Edmundsbury Borough, while others are in the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archeology and Anthropology . Some are on display in the Anglo-Saxon museum village of West Stow .
literature
- David Hall, John Coles: Fenland survey. An essay in landscape and persistence (= Archaeological Report. NF Vol. 1). English Heritage, London 1994, ISBN 1-85074-477-7 .