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Monument details

Summary

Bronze Age hoard consisting of 17 pieces, including spearheads, axes and palstaves, in a pot was found 1941/2 in a sandpit at Broadoak.

Monument Types

• Hoard (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds

• AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 900 BC to 701 BC)
• PALSTAVE (Late Bronze Age - 900 BC to 701 BC)
• POT (Late Bronze Age - 900 BC to 701 BC)
• SPEAR (Late Bronze Age - 900 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

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[TR 16676037] Late Bronze Age hoard found A.D.1942 [NAT] (1) A late Bronze Age I hoard, dated c.900 B.C., and consisting of 17 pieces in a pot, (and 4 pieces found later) (3) was found in 1942 (a) among the roots of a tree in the topsoil of a sandpit 300 yards north of Broadoak railway crossing, close to the Hackington-Sturry boundary. It included leaf-shaped spearheads, looped palstaves, looped and winged axes, looped and socketed axes, etc., and is in Canterbury Museum. (2-4) The Broadoak LBA Founders' hoard on exhibition in the Royal Museum, Canterbury, Acc. No. RM 7815, was donated by the late Dr. A. G. Ince. A note filed with the copy of a letter from Canterbury Museum to Dr. Ince, dated 10th September 1941, gives the circumstances and the date of discovery as August 1941, but nothing which would give a close siting within the pit. A letter in Maidstone Museum from Dr. Ince dated 3.6.41 records the discovery of "3 axes and a spearhead" from the Broadoak sandpit, but whether these represent the earliest mention of the hoard or a separate find is not certain; they have not been traced as separate items either at Canterbury or Maidstone Museums. The sandpit, centred at TR 166603, is disused and completely overgrown. (5) (9)

<1> OS 6' 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48298.

<2> Ant J 23 1943 55-6 (illust) (RF Jessup) (OS Card Reference). SKE33158.

<3> Ant J 24 1944 148-9 (illust) (R Grace) (OS Card Reference). SKE33159.

<4> F Jenkins Hon Corr (OS Card Reference). SKE41723.

<5> F1 NVQ 03-SEP-54 (OS Card Reference). SKE43034.

<6> F2 CFW 27-NOV-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE43285.

<7> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 3 - September, 1954 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5550.

<8> Field report for monument TR 16 SE 3 - November, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5551.

<9> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994, A28 Sturry Bypass: A Interim Review of the Archaeological Resource and Historic Landscape, p 32 (Unpublished document). SKE7002.

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