NHER 37104 (Find Spot record) - Bradenham Green Late Bronze Age hoards

3 May 2002. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of Anglian Water pipeline (North Pickenham to West Bradenham Supply Main).
Shallow pit containing the well-preserved remains of a probable Late Bronze Age metalworker's hoard of scrap metal. The hoard belongs to the Late Bronze Age Ewart Park metalworking tradition and comprises 30 objects of which nine are complete and another one is near-complete. The total weight of the hoard is 1.74 kg and it includes socketed axes, gouges, a spearhead, a chisel, an awl and fragments of a sword, knife and vessel. The hoard is significant as all of the objects were found together in situ, apparently undisturbed until their discovery during these excavations.
No other features were identified in the vicinity of the hoard.
See published article (S1) and assessment report (S2) for further details. This discovery is also noted in (S3).
See NHER 37106 for details of unstatified finds recovered along the rest of the pipeline during the watching brief.
An archive associated with this work has been deposited with Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.435).
J. Allen (NLA), 9 May 2002 and A. Cattermole (HES), 20 July 2011. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 May 2015 and 12 July 2023.

March 2018. Metal-detecting. [1].
Late Bronze Age hoard of the Ewart Park metalworking tradition recovered from an undisturbed deposit. The field had recently been ploughed for the first time in living memory, so this hoard must be considered as an additional discrete hoard to that recovered in 2002.
The hoard consists of 8 Late Bronze Age socketed axeheads and fragments, a socketed gouge, socketed spearheads, a sword hilt and blade fragment, and a sheet metal fragment.
Information from PAS import.
The Late Bronze Age hoard was submitted as possible Treasure, disclaimed and returned to the finder (Ref: 2018 T176).
E. McDonald (HES), 1 May 2019.