NHER 67606 (Find Spot record) - Middle Bronze Age hoard
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Full Description
April and August 2023. Metal-detecting. [1].
Found scattered within an area c.40m across:
Middle Bronze Age hoard comprising 9 fragments from 4 copper alloy artefacts: a complete short rapier, an incomplete larger rapier, an incomplete socketed spearhead and a bent strip.
Although hoards including both dirks/rapiers and spearheads are not common, parallels do exist and it is therefore likely that these object fragments had originally been deposited together. The rapiers appear to be of the Penard phase of the Middle Bronze Age, which dates to between c.1275 BC to c.1000 BC. Due to its undiagnostic nature it is possible that the bent strip was not associated with the hoard.
Information from PAS import.
This hoard was submitted for consideration as Treasure (Ref: 2023 T769).
P. Watkins (HES), 26 January 2025.
Associated Sources (0)
Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)
Object Types (4)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Middle Bronze Age - 1600 BC? to 1001 BC?)
- HOARD (Middle Bronze Age - 1275 BC to 1001 BC)
- RAPIER (Middle Bronze Age - 1275 BC to 1001 BC)
- SOCKETED SPEARHEAD (Middle Bronze Age - 1275 BC to 1001 BC)
Related NHER Records (0)
Record last edited
Apr 23 2025 4:52PM