List of Bronze Age deposit finds in Great Britain

The list of Bronze Age deposit finds in Great Britain includes significant archaeological deposit finds in Great Britain ( England , Scotland and Wales ) that date from the British Bronze Age (2700 BC-700 BC). Depot finds are single or multiple, but always simultaneously laid down, buried or sunk objects that are neither grave goods nor settlement remains.

List of deposit finds

Surname	image	Dating	Location	Found year	Repository	Brief description
Auchnacree Hoard		23rd to 21st century BC Chr.	Auchnacree Angus (Scotland) 56 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 52 ′ 48 ″  W	1921	Museum of Scotland , Edinburgh	2 bronze knives 3 bronze ax heads 1 bronze bangle
Boughton Malherbe Hoard		9th century BC Chr.	Boughton Malherbe Kent 51 ° 12 ′ 36 "  N , 0 ° 41 ′ 24"  E	2011	Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery	352 bronze objects, which are also typical for northern France, contain fragments of 75 bronze weapons, 136 bronze tools and tool fragments, 42 bronze jewelry and around 71 bronze ingots, forms and other objects.
Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard		Bronze age	Burnham-on-Crouch Essex 51 ° 37 ′ 40.8 "  N , 0 ° 48 ′ 54"  E	2010	Colchester and Ipswich Museums	Ceramic vessel filled with bronze axes and other metal parts
Burton Hoard		13th to mid 12th century BC Chr.	Burton (Rossett) , Wrexham Clwyd 53 ° 6 ′ 18 "  N , 2 ° 57 ′ 54"  W.	2004	National Museum Cardiff	2 bronze heel axes 1 bronze chisel 1 torques made of gold 1 bracelet made of twisted gold wire 1 necklace pendant made of gold 4 gold pearls 3 gold rings 1 ceramic vessel
Collette Hoard		10th to 9th century BC Chr.	Berwick upon Tweed Northumberland 55 ° 46 '15.6 "  N , 2 ° 0' 25.2"  W.	2005	Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	6 grommet axes, 6 gold lock rings and various bracelets, rings and pins
Corbridge Hoard (1835)		Middle Bronze Age	Corbridge Northumberland 54 ° 57 ′ 43.2 "  N , 1 ° 59 ′ 45.6"  W.	1835	Blackgate Museum Bailiffgate Museum	Fragments of two spearheads Fragments of dagger blades A ridge ax
Crundale Hoard		8th to 9th century BC Chr.	Crundale Kent 51 ° 12 '7.2 "  N , 0 ° 58' 26.4"  E	2003	Museum of Canterbury	188 Fragments of the following things: ax, vessel, heel ax, hammer, chisel, knife, sickle, sword, bracelet, ring and ingot
Duddingston Loch Hoard		950-750 BC Chr.	Duddingston Loch Edinburgh 55 ° 56 ′ 24 ″  N , 3 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  W.	1778	Museum of Scotland , Edinburgh	44 bronze objects: ring of a large cauldron and fragments of spearheads, swords and dagger blades; Tip of a spearhead; Bent bronze sword in two parts with three rivet holes and a slot in the grip plate; bent bronze sword tip; broken blade of a bronze sword bent back at the tip.
Heights of Brae Hoard		8th to 7th century BC Chr.	Heights of Brae Dingwall , Highlands 57 ° 36 ′ 57.6 ″  N , 4 ° 28 ′ 33.6 ″  W.	1967 and 1979	Museum of Scotland , Edinburgh	3 pieces of gold jewelry with cup-shaped ends, 5 gold bracelets and 1 wavy gold ribbon (one piece of jewelry with cup-shaped ends, one bracelet and two additional pieces were found during fieldwork in 1967 and are no longer available; the remaining seven pieces were found in 1979 during archaeological investigations).
Hollingbourne Hoard		10th to 9th century BC Chr.	Hollingbourne Kent 51 ° 16 ′ 1.2 "  N , 0 ° 38 ′ 27.6"  E	2003	Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery	12 axes and ax fragments made of bronze 2 sword handle fragments made of bronze 6 sword blade fragments made of bronze 2 spearhead fragments made of bronze 14 ingots made of bronze
Husband's Bosworth Hoard		Late Bronze Age	Husbands Bosworth Leicestershire 52 ° 27 '10.8 "  N , 1 ° 3' 21.6"  W.	1801	unknown	4 polished cross ax spouts 2 cross ax spouts 3 chisel spouts 2 spearheads 1 flat lance shoe
Isleham Hoard		8th century BC Chr.	Isleham Cambridgeshire 52 ° 20 ′ 34.8 "  N , 0 ° 26 ′ 27.6"  E	1959	West Stow (Anglo-Saxon Village) Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge	6500 pieces of worked and unworked bronze
Lambourn Hoard		14th to 12th century BC Chr.	Lambourn Berkshire 51 ° 30 ′ 32.4 "  N , 1 ° 31 ′ 51.6"  W.	2004	West Berkshire Museum	2 gold bracelets 3 gold bracelets
Langdon Bay Hoard		13th century BC Chr.	In the English Channel at Langdon Bay Kent 51 ° 7 ′ 48 ″  N , 1 ° 21 ′ 3.6 ″  E	1974	British Museum , London	360 metal parts, including bronze axes of the French type
Langton Matravers Hoard		7th century BC Chr.	Langton Matravers , near Swanage Dorset 50 ° 36 ′ 32.4 "  N , 2 ° 0 ′ 21.6"  W.	2008	Dorset County Museum, Dorchester	276 whole bronze ax sockets, 107 half bronze ax sockets and 117 fragments of bronze ax sockets in three neighboring pits and one a little further away
Lockington Hoard		21st to 20th century BC Chr.	Lockington Leicestershire 52 ° 50 ′ 52.8 "  N , 1 ° 18 ′ 28.8"  W.	1994	British Museum , London	Fragments of two pots (bell cup style) 1 dagger made of copper alloy 2 embossed gold bracelets
Manorbier Hoard		10th to 9th century BC Chr.	Manorbier Dyfed 51 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  N , 4 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W.	2010		19 artifacts made of bronze and copper, included ax sleeves, a chisel, a piece of a sword blade, ingots and by-products of bronze manufacture
Mickleham Hoard		10th to 11th century BC Chr.	Mickleham Surrey 51 ° 16 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 0 ° 19 ′ 15.6 ″  W.	2003		2 ax nozzles 1 belt buckle
Migdale Hoard		23rd to 20th century BC Chr.	Bonar Bridge Sutherland 57 ° 54 ′ 14.4 "  N , 4 ° 19 ′ 37.2"  W.	1990	Museum of Scotland , Edinburgh	1 bronze ax head sets of bracelets and anklets pieces of charcoal hair accessories made of bronze fragments of a headdress made of bronze
Milton Keynes Hoard		Mid 12th to late 9th century BC Chr.	Monkston , Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire 52 ° 2 ′ 9.6 "  N , 0 ° 42 ′ 0"  W	2000	British Museum , London	2 gold torques 3 bangles 1 bronze fragment 1 clay vessel
Bog Sand Hoard		13th century BC Chr.	Off Prawle Point, near Salcombe Devon 50 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 3 ° 43 ′ 30 ″  W	1977	British Museum , London	6 bronze swords, sword fragments and 2 bronze heel axes
New Bradwell (or Wolverton) Hoard		Mid 12th to late 9th century BC Chr.	New Bradwell , Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire 52 ° 3 ′ 54 "  N , 0 ° 47 ′ 52.8"  W.	1879	Buckinghamshire County Museum	9 ax nozzles 3 broken axes 1 heel ax 2 spearheads 1 blade- shaped sword (broken into 4 parts)
Near Lewes Hoard		16th to 12th century BC Chr.	near Lewes East Sussex 51 ° 3 ′ 36 "  N , 2 ° 4 ′ 48"  W.	2011		79 objects in a clay vessel, including 3 bronze heel axes, 5 bronze bangles, 8 bronze finger rings, 4 bronze tutuli, 4 gold discs, 1 bronze nail, 19 amber beads and 4 bronze torques
Parc-y-Meirch Hoard		9th century BC Chr.	Dinorben hillfort, near Abergele Conwy 53 ° 16 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 3 ° 32 ′ 56.4 ″  W	before 1868	National Museum Cardiff	Over 100 pieces of bronze harness
Rossett Hoard		10th to 9th century BC Chr.	Rossett Wrexham 53 ° 6 ′ 32.4 "  N , 2 ° 56 ′ 42"  W.	2002	National Museum Wales	1 facet ax 1 knife 4 parts of a gold bracelet stored inside the ax
St Erth hoards		8th to 9th century BC Chr.	St Erth Cornwall 50 ° 9 ′ 57.6 "  N , 5 ° 26 ′ 13.2"  W.	2002-2003	Royal Cornwall Museum	2 gold jewelry fragments bronze / copper depot find 1: 5 sword parts, 3 ax socket parts, 1 part of a chisel socket, 1 knife fragment, 1 plate-like fragment, 16 bar fragments or amorphous cast remains bronze / copper deposit find 2: 1 rag ax, 1 plate-like stain, 15 ingot fragments
St Mellons Hoard		Late Bronze Age	St Mellons , Cardiff Glamorgan 51 ° 31 ′ 8.4 "  N , 3 ° 6 ′ 50.4"  W.	1983	National Museum Cardiff	25 bronze socket axes and a sprue residue
Stogursey Hoard (1870)		8th century BC Chr.	Wick Farm, Stogursey Somerset 51 ° 11 ′ 20.4 "  N , 3 ° 6 ′ 39.6"  W.	1870	Museum of Somerset	20 sword fragments 29 ax nozzles 37 ax nozzle fragments 2 heel axes 2 gouges 2 knives or daggers 1 chape 20 spearheads 34 other bronze fragments
Tisbury Hoard		9th to 8th century BC Chr.	Tisbury Wiltshire 51 ° 3 ′ 36 "  N , 2 ° 5 ′ 24"  W.	2011		114 bronze objects, include weapons and tools (sword handles, sword blades, spearheads, ax heads, chisels, chisels, sickles and knives), jewelry, razors and other objects
Towednack Hoard		10th century BC Chr.	Towednack Cornwall 50 ° 11 ′ 27.6 "  N , 5 ° 31 ′ 12"  W.	1931	British Museum , London	2 gold torques 4 gold bracelets 3 gold bars

Remarks

1. ↑ The Collette Hoard is named after Collette Minns, the then 8-year-old daughter of the finder John Minns.
2. ↑ The Langdon Bay Hoard is currently on loan to the Dover Museum.

literature

• Caroline Barton, Fi Hitchcock: Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 1998-1999 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Roger Bland, Lisa Voden-Decker: Treasure Annual Report 2000 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Roger Bland, Lisa Voden-Decker: Treasure Annual Report 2001 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Anna Gannon, Lisa Voden-Decker, Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 2002 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Anna Gannon, Lisa Voden-Decker, Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 2003 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Fi Hitchcock: Treasure Annual Report 2004 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).
• Michael Lewis: Portable Antiquities and Treasure Annual Report 2007 . Ed .: Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, British Museum . 2007, ISBN 978-0-9563795-1-1 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hoard (part) from Auchnacree Lodge, Fern, Angus . National Museums Scotland . Retrieved July 14, 2010.
2. ↑ Huge hoard of Bronze Age finds from Boughton Malherbe area discovered . Portable Antiquities Scheme . December 7th, 2011. Archived from the original on January 4th, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2011. 
3. ↑ KENT-15A293 - Bronze Age Hoard . Portable Antiquities Scheme . Retrieved December 10, 2011.
4. ^ Bronze Age Hoard from the Burnham on Crouch Area . Portable Antiquities Scheme . Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 25, 2010. 
5. ↑ The Burton Hoard, Wrexham: context and significance . National Museum Wales . Archived from the original on June 19, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 6, 2010. 
6. ^ Hoard sheds new light on Bronze Age Northumbrians . Archived from the original on March 13, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 17, 2010. 
7. ^ Hoard sheds new light on Bronze Age Northumbrians . Newcastle University . Archived from the original on June 17, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2010. 
8. ↑ Monument no.20595 . In: Pastscape . English Heritage . Retrieved July 23, 2010.
9. ^ Anna Gannon, Lisa Voden-Decker, Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 2003 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. S. 22-33, 198 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]). ncmd.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ Hoard of Bronze Metalwork . National Museums of Scotland. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
11. ↑ John M. Coles: Scottish late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology . In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . 93, 1959-60, p. 117.
12. ^ DV Clarke, MMB Kemp: A hoard of late Bronze Age gold objects from Heights of Brae, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region . In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . 114, 1984, pp. 189-198.
13. ^ Anna Gannon, Lisa Voden-Decker, Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 2003 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. S. 35-38 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]). ncmd.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Bronze Age Hoard . Retrieved August 7, 2010.
15. ↑ Monument no.377660 . In: Pastscape . English Heritage . Retrieved July 14, 2010.
16. ^ Fi Hitchcock: Treasure Annual Report 2004 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. S. 21, 214, 228 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]). ncmd.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ^ Bronze Age Boat Gallery . Dover Museum. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 9, 2010. 
18. ↑ ^{a b} Questioning the wrecks of time Archived from the original on June 12, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: British Archeology . No. 91, November – December 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2016. 
19. ↑ Michael Lewis: Portable Antiquities and Treasure Annual Report 2007 . Ed .: Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, British Museum . 2007, ISBN 978-0-9563795-1-1 , pp. 55-57 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]). ncmd.co.uk ( Memento of the original dated October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ Two embossed gold armlets . British Museum . Retrieved August 7, 2010.
21. ^ Pembrokeshire Coroner declares Bronze Age hoard treasure . Western Telegraph . October 27, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
22. ^ Anna Gannon, Lisa Voden-Decker, Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 2003 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. S. 21-22, 182, 198 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]). ncmd.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
23. ↑ Migdale Hoard . National Museums Scotland . Retrieved July 14, 2010.
24. ↑ The Milton Keynes hoard . British Museum . Retrieved July 14, 2010.
25. ↑ Monument no.345096 . In: Pastscape . English Heritage . Retrieved July 26, 2010.
26. ↑ Record ID: SUSS-C5D042 . Portable Antiquities Scheme . April 6, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
27. ↑ The Parc-y-Meirch hoard from Dinorben Bronze Age hillfort . Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 7, 2010. 
28. ^ The Rossett and Burton Hoards . Wrexham County Borough Council. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
29. ^ Anna Gannon, Lisa Voden-Decker, Roger Bland: Treasure Annual Report 2002 . Ed .: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. S. 20-22 ( ncmd.co.uk [PDF]). ncmd.co.uk ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
30. ^ A Research Framework for the Archeology of Wales: Southeast Wales - Later Prehistoric, key sites . Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. December 22, 2003. Retrieved August 7, 2010.
31. ↑ Monument no. 191257 . In: Pastscape . English Heritage . Retrieved August 10, 2010.
32. ↑ Record ID: WILT-E8DA70 . Portable Antiquities Scheme . October 19, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
33. ↑ Monument no. 423260 . In: Pastscape . English Heritage . Retrieved July 14, 2010.

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