Record ID: KENT-BA2BC6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description 1. Socketed axe, South-East class A. Small, incomplete; two joining fragments with a recent break. Double mouth moulding. Casting flashes intact. Blade edge corrosion chipped and missing in places. Expanded blade, blade tip hollows developed. Ridge down the centre of the internal face. L: 75.3mm; W. blade: 40.5mm; W. mouth: 35mm; Wt: 116.6g. 2. Blade, fragment. Rectangular in plan. No blade edges survive and the surfaces are heavily pitted. L: 34.25mm; W: 18.5mm; Th: 4.7-5.6mm; Wt: 15.7g. 3. Bracelet, fragment. Undecorated. The section is circular at one end, becomi…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilmanstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-7DA0B5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A single element of the UWTS archaeological fieldwork (WA 54746) remains to be undertaken. An assessment of the results of the scheme-wide project is in progress, to be followed by full publication, probably in a Wessex Archaeology monograph. Metalwork Two discrete hoards of Late Bronze Age metalwork were recovered (from Trenches 6 and 7 respectively) during archaeological evaluation in June 2004. Further elements of one of these hoards (Hoard 1) were found during subsequent excavation in June 2005; it is almost certain that all elements of this hoard have been recovered. Th…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ebbsfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-7D4A11
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description 2. Socketed axe fragment (site id. 358) Mouth intact, but blade and one face lacking. Class A socketed axe decorated with wing-rib design. The bases of the wings continue onto the sides as a slight horizontal moulding. Length 69 mm; weight 81.4 g 3. Plate-like fragment All edges broken; possibly part of an artefact. Max. dimension 46.5 mm; weight 23.2 g 4. Tang fragment Blunt ended rod of sub-trapezoid section; other end thins and expands towards a bifurcation, but the two ends are immediately broken. Length 36.5 mm; weight 9.4g 5. I…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ringlemere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-7C3863
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The 185 objects represented in this hoard include a wide variety of artefact types. There are 57 socketed axe fragments, of which four are complete or almost complete. The axes are of the South-Eastern type and most show signs of having been deliberately broken for inclusion in the hoard as scrap metal. In addition, there is one socketed chisel fragment, one palstave fragment, four end-winged axe fragments, two socketed hammers, three socketed gouges, 11 knife fragments with socketed, tanged and shouldered and Hog-backed examples represented, three sickle fragments, 17 Ewart Park swor…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crundale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-757FC0
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
1. Socketed axe fragment Incomplete, socketed axe; South Eastern class A. Double mouth moulding. Blade tip hollows, expanded blade. The blade tip is missing on one side. Heavy diffuse bevelling on the lower blade where the blade begins to expand. There is a fine transverse crack on both sides at this point. Many very fine transverse and oblique lines close to the blade edge. Traces of the blade edge intact, otherwise the edge is corrosion chipped. Casting flashes are visible, but they have been mostly removed close to the blade tip hollows. Two casting jet stumps. Oblique striati…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-7541B6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The hoard is composed of five socketed axes, five fragments of Ewart Park swords, two fragments of Carp's Tongue swords from a minimum of three swords and three ingot fragments. The axes, which are all fragmentary, are of the South-Eastern type. Nos. 1-2 show signs of having been deliberately broken for inclusion as scrap metal. The faceted axe fragment (no. 5) belongs to a distinctive type with noticeably well-finished examples which have a very wide distribution. 1. Socketed axe fragment: South-Eastern Double mouth moulding. Both faces have wing mouldings. Very faint trans…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.