Record ID: SF-297D16
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A Late Bronze Age hoard consisting of 26 items, described individually below. 1:An incomplete small bronze winged axe with loop. The blade end is in good condition but the butt end is missing and the wings are heavily hammered, excessively bent inwards and incomplete. There are variable amounts of corrosive encrustation and pocking and limited recent, possibly agricultural, scrapes; otherwise the axe has a dark brown/green patina. Dimensions: Length 93mm, width of blade 37mm and weight 223g. 2:A complete bronze socketed axe with standard double mouth moulding. T…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-92A18F
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A small hoard of alloy Late Bronze Age metalwork, consisting of three incomplete and fragmentary socketed axes and five fragments of metalworking debris. One axe survives in better condition than the others, complete but for a missing section of the socket. The remaining portion of the socket is rectangular in cross-section and there is a raised rim around its outer end. Further moulding may be visible on each face behind this rim, but this is obscured by damage and corrosion. Extending along one side behind the socket rim is a low, integral, semi-circular loop. The…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd December 2015
Last updated: Friday 13th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9DAF64
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A hoard of seven Late Bronze Age fragments, including one socketed axe fragment, one possible blade fragment and five fragments of metalworking debris. The axe fragment comes from the mouth and socket. It is curved in profile and there is a raised rim across the outer face of the socket end. There is a casting seam running along the centre of the outer face, suggesting that it comes from the side of the axe. The fragment of blade come from the central mid-section and the outer edges are missing. It is hexagonal in cross-section with a flattened central section and i…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke by Nayland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2596D4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A late Bronze Age hoard with 47 pieces listed below. 1) A copper-alloy fragment of a solid hammer, roughly rectangular in plan flaring towards one terminal, both terminals now missing due to old breaks. It was produced in a bivalve mould-casting seams remain upstanding. Dimensions: 116.84g in weight, 40.24mm length, 34.05mm width, 18.09mm in thickness. 2) A copper-alloy fragment of a socketed spearhead with large, probably circular, central socket forming the midrib. There are secondary side-ribs midway along the blade edge, which is significantly damaged/ corrod…
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bramfield area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-48BA44
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A dispersed Late Bronze Age hoard recovered initially through metal detecting on 24th March 2012, followed by a small scale excavation on the 27th March 2012 by Andrew Brown (Suffolk FLO) and Mark Sommers (SCCAS). Metal detecting on the 24th of March produced a total of nine objects including the remains of seven socketed axes, one gouge and a fragment of copper-alloy ingot all dating to the Late Bronze Age. Excavation on the 27th centred on the immediate area of the metal detected finds where there was the suggestion of a concentration of material in addition to objects still i…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Bergholt area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-88E071
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Following metal detecting and excavation which recovered a hoard of 16 objects in March 2012 recorded under PAS reference SF-48BA44, further metal detecting has recovered eight additional objects. Objects: Complete Socketed Axe Description: Complete cast copper-alloy looped socketed axe of South Eastern Type. The axe is plain with what looks like a single mouth moulding on one side and a double mouth moulding on the other side. It has a straight or possibly slightly hour-glass shaped outline. The blade looks slightly splayed and shows some signs of use and re-sha…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2012
Last updated: Friday 4th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near East Bergholt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3849C0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Five objects which are possibly part of a Late Bronze Age hoard. 1: A roughly wedge-shaped copper-alloy fragment of metal working waste with irregular but relatively angular faces. At least two of the edges appear snapped though all faces are heavily patinated dark greenish-brown. Dimensions; 37.8mm x 31mm x 12.5mm and 41g in weight. 2: A fragment of a copper-alloy socket with short stub of a loop surviving. A moulding seam is visible above and below the loop stub. The relatively small oval mouth diameter suggests that this is probably from a socketed chisel or mortising tool though i…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-13C7A2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of nine cast copper-alloy Middle Bronze Age metalwork probably dating to the Acton Park phase, c.1500-1300 BC. They were discovered by the finder whilst metal detecting in proximity to a previous group of Middle Bronze Age objects (WSS 020) and were recovered by archaeological excavation on the 20th January 2011 by Andrew Brown (PAS/SCCAS) and Andy Beverton (SCCAS). Excavation demonstrated that the objects were deposited in a small oval shaped pit cut into the natural clay to a depth of approximately 10cm, the upper levels of the deposit possibly disturbed by tree root activit…
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2011
Last updated: Friday 14th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Halesworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BDA986
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A late Bronze Age hoard consisting of six objects including: 1 copper alloy socketed axe and 5 gold lock-rings (which were located within the hollow of the axe, three of the lock-rings were excavated from the body of the axe by the British Museum conservation department), were found while metal detecting with landowners permission at a depth of 8-9 inches. It is to be known as the "Near North Cove" hoard. Description 1. Copper alloy socketed axe, Class B- Southern English ribbed type. The socket mouth is rounded and the axe has a double mouth moulding, the higher of which is more pr…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near North Cove', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D79F92
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of Bronze Age copper-alloy metalwork comprising six Middle Bronze Age palstaves. The palstaves were found whilst metal detecting and appear to have been deposited in pairs within a small hole, with each pair positioned so that the blade end of the top axe met the butt end of the lower. All of the palstaves were removed from the ground by the finders and show signs of active copper-alloy corrosion. 1) (SF1001) Complete unlooped palstave with shield pattern decoration below the stop ridge. The casting seams have been polished out and the sides have vertical ridges level with t…
Created on: Monday 24th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Halesworth', grid reference and parish protected.