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English: A Late Bronze Age hoard of 12 copper alloy objects. The following information is taken from the Treasure report, written by Sally Worrell, Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Advisor for Prehistoric, Iron Age and Roman artefacts:

The items are from a minimum of one socketed axe, two socketed gouges and nine fragments of raw metal copper ingot. The non-ingot fragments are all fragmentary and show signs of having been deliberately broken for inclusion as scrap metal. Ingots of raw material are a well-known feature of this particular period in southern England. The presence of axe and gouge fragments which may be interpreted as scrap, mixed with ingots of raw material, suggests that this is a founders' hoard. Within such a small group of artefacts, it is unusual that two socketed gouges are represented. All of these artefacts fall within the Ewart Park phase of the Late Bronze Age and suggest a date of deposition towards the end of the period, around 1000-800 BC. The hoarding of metalwork at this period was not an uncommon phenomenon, particularly in the south-east of Britain with scattered examples elsewhere.

1. Socketed axehead, blade fragment. Small axe. Narrow, rectangular socket. Slightly expanded blade, small part of edge intact. Shallow chunk missing from blade edge. Original surface missing on all surfaces, apart from an area close to the blade edge on one face which is mid-brown and has horizontal striations from re-sharpening. L: 35.3mm Blade W.: 41.5mm W. at break: 32mm D. at break: 12.1mm Wt: 37.6g

2. Socketed gouge, fragment. Tip of furrow. All surfaces pale green and missing the original surface. L: 22.9mm W: 12.4mm D: 9.05mm Wt: 7.5g

3. Socketed gouge, fragment. Broken close to furrow, edges missing. L: 20.65mm W: 15.38mm Wt: 8.2g

4. Ingot, fragment. Almost triangular in section. Th: 19.2mm Wt: 68.4g

5. Ingot, fragment. Two cast grooves on one surface. Th: 11.3mm Wt: 21.1g

6. Ingot, edge fragment. Plano-convex. Th: 21.7 Wt: 207.6g

7. Probable ingot, fragment. Th: 14.7mm Wt: 88.5g

8. Ingot, edge fragment. Plano-convex. Th: 19.56mm Wt: 52.6g

9. Ingot, edge fragment. Plano-convex. Th: 23.25mm Wt: 201.7g

10. Ingot, fragment. Plano-convex. Th: 21.4 Wt: 87g

11. Ingot, fragment. Two cast grooves on upper surface. Th: 18.5mm Wt: 84.5g

12. Ingot, edge fragment. Plano-convex. Th: 26.1 Wt: 466.2g Dimensions (millimetres/grams) L: length W: width B: breadth Th: thickness Wt: weight