Record ID: BM-38312B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Catalogue: SF No. Description BAG1-0001 Cu-alloy socketed mortising chisel (lower section only). 28.97g. 64mm. Cf Davey 1973 no. 416. and Cheetham 1977 Pl. 6 no. 17. 24.09.03 BAG1-0002 Cu-alloy socketed axehead (looped rim section only). Loop is sealed by casting flash still in situ. 8.83g. 38mm 24.09.03 BAG1-0003 Cu-alloy ingot section. 290g.* 70mm. 2…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: ESS-DAC5E2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A hoard of 23 copper-alloy objects comprised of 10 socketed axes, 1 sword fragment, 12 bun ingots of Late Bronze Age (c.1000-800 BC). Socketed Axes SF. 1: An incomplete looped socketed axehead (Southeastern Type) dating to c.950-800 BC. The socket is square in shape with a maximum width of 38.8mm and has a quadruple-collared socket, all being broadly rounded and the upper collar being thicker than the lower three at 5.4mm. The body narrows gradually towards the midpoint to a width of 27.6mm before widening again to 46.1mm, the sides curving to the blade's corne…
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near shalford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5011D1
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Two copper alloy items: (a) a fragment of a small, cast bronze, socketed axehead. The axe has a short body with a very gentle curve at the sides extending into a flared mouth at one end and expanded cutting edge at the other. The mouth has a prominent collar and the socket is rectangular in section. The loop projects just below the collar, although it is broken off close to the points where it joins the body of the axe. The axe is about two-thirds complete, with a considerable portion of one face missing, and there is significant damage to the cutting edge and the survivin…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2023
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Record ID: BM-C514EA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The find consists of 36 copper alloy, two of which refit to form a partial object (no 35 & 36 in the catalogue below, to form a partial axe). There is 6 full socketed axe , 2 fragmented double winged-axe, 2 fragmented winged-axe and 14 axe fragments, 8 ingots fragment , 1 possible cauldron handle/fitting  fragment, 2 casting jets and 1 possible copper alloy mould fragment. ID DESCRIPTION DIMENSION WEIGHT (g) 1 Full socketed axe, some green rust and corrosion, blade sharp with dent, casting seam along t…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
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Record ID: ESS-81C661
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description:   Six copper alloy items:  1. Possible chisel in the form of a wedge-shaped bar of rectangular section, squared-off narrow end, diagonally opposite corners with three regular spaced notches.   Length: 85mm, width: 22mm tapers to 3mm, thickness: 14mm tapers to 9mm, weight: 105.77g  2. Chisel in the form of a wedge-shaped bar of square section, rounded narrow end, undecorated.  Length: 99mm, width: 9mm, thickness: 9mm tapers to 3mm, weight: 55.22g  3. Ring fragment, circular cross section, undecorated.  Length: 59mm, diamet…
Created on: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bentley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-F88237
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard consisting of 13 items: 3 socketed axeheads and 10 pieces of casting waste. Axeheads 1: An incomplete, heavily worn fragment of a cast Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed axe head, dating to c.1300-700 cal BC. The fragment consists of the axe's blade above which is a worn and abraded termination that is placed such that a small portion of the interior of the socket survives. The broken edge of the axe runs transversely across its body giving a flat edge from which the sides widen in slightly concave curves to pointed wings. From these extend a crescent blade.…
Created on: Monday 17th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelvedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4E0184
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Addendum to a previously known hoard find from the same site (ESS-F8865B / 2015 T113), known as the 'Blackwater Hoard'. This assemblage is comprised of 13 separate artefacts, all made of copper-alloy and very likely from the same deposit as the initial hoard and adds to the subsequent addenda found on the site since the initial discovery (ESS-D0E1B5 / 2017 T301).   Description Dimensions   1 Incomplete copper-alloy socketed axe with flared blade edges. Two raised ridges are present on the upper and lower surfa…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2018
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2023
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Record ID: SF-360E9A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Report for H M Coroner Treasure Number: 2017 T393 Find Spot: To be known as: 'near Manningtree' PAS Database number: SF-360E9A Period: Bronze Age Finder: Dave Haffenden Date of Discovery: March 2017 Circumstances of discovery: Metal detecting on ploughed land with the landowner's permission Description: A hoard of three Bronze Age copper alloy objects, including a complete socketed axe, a fragment of a socketed axe and a metalworking debris consisting of a casting sprue. The complete axe is in good condition. The blade end curves outwards gently with flared …
Created on: Friday 28th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-D132C4
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An addendum to the previously recorded 'Tendring Hoard' (see PAS ref A group of 11 bronze objects found through metal detecting in Tendring, Essex, found in the same area and therefore associated with the Tendring Hoard (2015 T590). 1) sword fragment. A fragment of a copper alloy sword blade. The fragment is from the blade, broken across the blade on both ends, resulting in a slight curved or s-shaped profile in section. The cross section shows a convex middle section which then thins towards each blade edge. The curved cross-section suggests that the fragment stems from the …
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-D0E1B5
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A hoard of Late Bronze Age metalwork was discovered on two separate occasions while searching with a metal detector. Date: Late Bronze Age, c.1000-700BC Copper alloy items 1.Copper alloy casting debris/ingot. Green patina. Length: 61mm. Breadth: 29mm. Depth: 19mm. Weight: 92g. 2. Copper alloy casting debris/ingot. Green patina. Length: 69mm. Breadth: 23mm. Depth: 17mm. Weight: 69.3g. 3. Copper alloy casting debris/ingot. Green patina. ‘C’ shaped. Protrusions. L: 57mm. B: 23mm. D: 10mm. W:41.8g. 4. Copper alloy casting debris/ingot. …
Created on: Thursday 30th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blackwater Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: ESS-A684CA
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two more fragments from a Bronze Age metal working hoard, found at the same site as the previously recorded ‘Great Canney Rapier Hoard’. These two finds amount to an addendum to this hoard (ESS-5DF6D2, 2016 T591). One fragment is lozenge shaped in cross section and is largely similar in shape and section to artefact number 12 in the original PAS record (ESS-5DF6D2). One end of this fragment is hollow, showing a circular depression. There is also some water damage present on much of the surface. Weight: 8.95g, length: 20.92mm, width: 13.62mm The other frag…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Canney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5DF6D2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A hoard of 9 cast copper alloy bronze age metalwork pieces. Most of the pieces are fragmentary remains of 8 - 11 rapiers of both group III and IV. There is also a rod-like item which is lozenge shaped in cross section and could be the reamins of a spearhead, and a hollow subtriangular item with two thin, curing linear protrusions. 1. A cast copper alloy rapier blade of probable Late Bronze Age date. The item is triangular, elongated and thin in shape and the cross section is lozenge shaped with a slightly rounded central portion. The blade is broken and the lower fra…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2016
Last updated: Friday 12th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Canney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-73DA0A
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
The entire assemblage appears to date to the period 1000-800BC, the later part of the Ewart Park phase of metalworking and possibly into the Early Iron Age. Many of the finds are not unusual for Late Bronze Age hoards, though some individual pieces are noteworthy. The presence of later objects, such as 11 and 38, would indicate the hoard is from the transitional phase between Bronze and Iron Age. AXES IDENTIFIABLE AXES 1. An incomplete winged Axe, dating to the Ewart Park phase (950-800BC). All features of the axe are present, though there is some damage at the blade edge and a break …
Created on: Friday 21st August 2015
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-F8865B
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Bronze Age metalworking hoard, dating 1,000-800 BC. Axes 1.1. A Ewart Park socketed Socketed axe head Copper alloy Late Bronze Age socketed axe of Needham's (1990, 28) Class A (South-eastern) type A1Plain. The axe-head is formed of a rectangular double collared mouth, the upper collar being thickest, leading to a rectangular sectioned body which flares and tapers to the blade edge. There are casting seams on both sides, with the loop following the line of the seam on one side. The loop is connected to the lower collar of the mouth. The object has a dark green patination, …
Created on: Thursday 16th April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blackwater Hoard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-00A993
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
2012 T615- Hoard from Mid Essex [Addendum to cases: 2005 T299 and 2006 T562] Circumstances of Discovery On the 20th August 2012, a group of six object(four copper alloy objects and two joining fragments of sheet gold) were discovered through metal detecting on cultivated land, after deep-ploughing. The finds comprised of: two joining fragments of gold sheet, two cast copper alloy rings and two fragments of copper-alloy casting residue/ingot (one of which is possibly a casting jet or casting residue). Description 1-2. Two,small, joining fragments of curved gold sheet, undec…
Created on: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EECB15
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Five fragments of 'bun' ingots were discovered in September 2013. The fragments were discovered in the course of metal detecting. A fragment of a copper-alloy 'Knee' Brooch of Late Iron Age or Roman in date was also discovered by the finders but does not form part of the Treasure case. It is recorded below as a non-associated find. Description 1. Fragment of 'bun' ingot A large fragment of copper alloy 'bun' ingot approx. pyramid in form with darker patches of green copper corrosion. Dimensions: Height: 34.7mm; Width: 67.8mm; Max thickness: 35.5mm; Weight: 218.2g 2.…
Created on: Monday 16th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: ESS-8822A3
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2010 T509; Bronze Age metalwork hoard with associated pottery from the Burnham-on-Crouch area. Method of discovery: metal detector / archaeological investigation. Items at all stages of discovery by four finders were reported to the Essex FLO. Upon discovery of an insitu pottery vessel, metal detecting ceased, and the finders contacted the Essex FLO to organise an archaeological excavation to recover and identify any remaining insitu items. The excavation included the block lifting of a damaged pottery vessel, containing further metalwork. Excavation was carried out b…
Created on: Tuesday 17th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham-on-Crouch Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: ESS-64E4E6
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze Age Hoard, (found prior to the 2003 amendment to the Treasure Act). Saffron Walden Museum accession no. 2011.88 1. Axe blade fragment 2. Spear blade fragment 3. Blade tip fragment 4. Ferrule 5. Chape end 6. Long tongue-shaped chape, broken at both ends 7. Chape fragment 8. Chape fragment 9. Chape fragment 10.Chape fragment 11.Chape fragment 12.Chape fragment 13.Chape fragment 14.Curved fragment 15.Plate fragment, 4 ribs 16.Plate fragment, 1 rib 17.Plate fragment, 1 rib 18.Plate fragment, 1 rib 19…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-BE6220
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case: 2011 T310 Sheering Area, Essex : Bronze Age Hoard Date of Discovery: 1st April 2011 Circumstances of discovery: Whilst searching with a metal detector Date: Late Bronze Age (1150-800BC) Description: The hoard consists of 23 bun ingot fragments, with a total weight of 9.693 kg. Listed by weight: · 1633 grams. 127.93mm by 82.80mm by 37.80mm · 1182 grams. 109.61mm by 85.74mm by 37.67mm · 1170 grams. 118.56mm by 91.96mm by 37.66mm · 1006 grams. 125.57mm by 74.50mm by 31.77mm · 776 grams. 97.72mm by 79.60mm by 26.66 · 762 grams. 112.82mm by 85.60mm …
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lower Sheering Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-9A1663
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE 2011 T217 Bronze Age Hoard Six fragments of Bronze Age metal work. Note: two of the pieces were found in 2002, prior to changes to the Treasure Act, the remaining four pieces were found in March 2011. It is not stipulated which objects relate to which period. Disposition: To be determined. Chelmsford Museum have been contacted with regards to acquisition. Description 1. Fragment of copper alloy Late Bronze Age chape. Measurements: length: 48mm; width, at widest point: 19mm; weight: 14.2g. 2. Fragment of copper alloy Late Bronze Age chape. Measurements: length: …
Created on: Monday 4th April 2011
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pleshey Area', grid reference and parish protected.