NHER 8216 (Find Spot record) - Late Bronze Age hoard from Bergavenny Field

NCM Record Card No. 1.
Late Bronze Age hoard.
Three socketed celts (+ one spearhead).
(i) 100mm length (6950M). Four raised ribs on blade.
(ii) 106mm length (6949 M).
(iii) 101mm length (6948 M). Three slightly raised ribs on the faces.
See (S1), (S2) and (S3).
Liverpool Museum - Rolfe Collection (Rev J. Layton). No. (i) only.
(S4) reports fourteen or fifteen objects found and illustrates two seen in 1812.
See (S5) for a copy of the illustration.
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

NCM Record Card No. 2.
Spearhead (+ two socketed axes) (118.5mm length) with two bands of four incised lines round socket.
?Also another (or the same?) spearhead found in a piece of land called Bergavenny.
Liverpool Museum 6947M (Rev. J.C. Layton).
See (S6).
R.R. Clarke (NCM).

Cutting in (S7) records Cotman in late 18th century as saying that labourers digging a trench found 'fourteen or fifteen brass implements and ancient weapons, one of which was a spear, another a chisel'. Same hoard?
Cutting is archived under Stalham - Wayford Wood.

Yes - (S3) gives hoard as fourteen celts, three spearheads or arrowheads, two sword fragments, found 90cm (3 feet) deep in deepening an old ditch. This was on arable land and not in marshes; the field was called Bergavenny and was attached to the estate of Neville's of Sutton. Most of the finds were broken, but 'no two had been cast in the same mould'. The find was made around 1811 to 1812 (within margin of error of (S7) reference). No field of this name on (S8).
E. Rose (NLA).

See photocopy of (S9) in file, for list and drawings of three socketed axes and one spearhead.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 14 November 2003.

Two NCM record cards record the same hoard.
M. Dennis (NLA), 6 April 2006.