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The list of Bronze Age hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with the British Bronze Age, approximately 2700 BC to 8th century BC. It includes both hoards that were buried with the intention of retrieval at a later date (personal hoards, founder's hoards, merchant's hoards, and hoards of loot), and also hoards of votive offerings which were not intended to be recovered at a later date, but excludes grave goods and single items found in isolation.

List of hoards

Hoard Image Date Place of discovery Year of discovery Current Location Contents
Adabrock Hoard A collection of items from the Adabrock hoard, Isle of Lewis.jpg 1000-800BC Adabroc,

Isle of Lewis

1910 National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 bronze socketed axeheads, 1 spearhead, 1 gouge, 1 hammer, 3 razors, fragments of decorated bronze vessel, two whetstones and beads of glass, amber and gold.
Arreton Down Hoard 1700-1500 BC Arreton Down,
Isle of Wight
50°40′55″N 1°14′13″W / 50.68196°N 1.23703°W / 50.68196; -1.23703 (Arreton Down Hoard)
1735 British Museum, London 7 bronze spear-heads, 4 axes, 1 dagger, 1 halberd
Auchnacree Hoard 23rd to 21st century BC Auchnacree
Angus
56°45′N 2°53′W / 56.75°N 2.88°W / 56.75; -2.88 (Auchnacree Hoard)
1921 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 bronze knives
3 bronze axeheads
1 bronze armlet
Beachy Head Hoard 1400-750 BC Beachy Head,
East Sussex
50°44′37″N 0°13′58″E / 50.7436494°N 0.2327261°E / 50.7436494; 0.2327261 (Beachy Head Hoard)
1824 British Museum, London 4 gold penannular bracelets
Beaumaris Hoard 1400-1100 BC Beaumaris,
Anglesey
53°16′02″N 4°05′35″W / 53.267093°N 4.093126°W / 53.267093; -4.093126 (Beaumaris Hoard)
1849 British Museum, London 2 gold penannular bracelets
Bexley Hoard 1000-750 BC Bexley,
London
51°27′36″N 0°06′29″E / 51.45996°N 0.108089°E / 51.45996; 0.108089 (Bexley Hoard)
1906 British Museum, London 17 gold penannular bracelets (one broken in half)
Boughton Malherbe Hoard 9th century BC Boughton Malherbe
Kent
51°13′N 0°41′E / 51.21°N 0.69°E / 51.21; 0.69 (Boughton Malherbe Hoard)
2011 Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery 352 bronze objects of types commonly found in northern France, comprising 75 bronze weapon fragments, 136 bronze tools and tool fragments, 42 bronze ornaments, and about 71 bronze ingots, moulds and miscellaneous objects.
Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard Selection of bronze axes from the Burnham Hoard Bronze Age Burnham-on-Crouch
Essex
51°37′41″N 0°48′54″E / 51.628°N 0.815°E / 51.628; 0.815 (Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard)
2010 Colchester and Ipswich Museums pottery vessel filled with bronze axes and other metalwork
Burton Hoard The Burton Hoard 13th to mid 12th century BC Burton, Wrexham
Clwyd
53°06′18″N 2°57′54″W / 53.105°N 2.965°W / 53.105; -2.965 (Burton Hoard)
2004 National Museum Cardiff 2 bronze palstaves
1 bronze chisel
1 gold torc
1 gold twisted-wire bracelet
1 gold necklace pendant
4 gold beads
3 gold rings
1 pottery vessel
Chrishall Hoard 1300-800 BC Chrishall,
Essex
52°01′58″N 0°06′26″E / 52.032798°N 0.107231°E / 52.032798; 0.107231 (Chrishall Hoard)
c. 1853 British Museum, London 5 bronze axes, 3 swords, 1 ingot, 1 spear-head
Collette Hoard 10th to 9th century BC Berwick upon Tweed
Northumberland
55°46′16″N 2°00′25″W / 55.771°N 2.007°W / 55.771; -2.007 (Collette Hoard)
2005 Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne 6 socketed axes, 6 gold lock rings, and various bracelets, rings and pins
Corbridge Hoard Middle Bronze Age Corbridge
Northumberland
54°57′43″N 1°59′46″W / 54.962°N 1.996°W / 54.962; -1.996 (Corbridge Hoard (1835))
1835 Blackgate Museum
Bailiffgate Museum
fragments of two spearheads
pieces of dagger blades
a flanged axe
Crundale Hoard 8th to 9th century BC Crundale
Kent
51°12′07″N 0°58′26″E / 51.202°N 0.974°E / 51.202; 0.974 (Crundale Hoard)
2003 Museum of Canterbury 188 fragments (including axe, chisel, palstave, hammer, gouge, knife, sickle, sword, bracelet, ring, and ingots)
Driffield Hoard I 14 bronze axeheads from Driffield Hoard I Late Bronze Age Driffield,
East Riding of Yorkshire
54°00′00″N 0°26′42″W / 54.000°N 0.445°W / 54.000; -0.445 (Driffield Hoard I)
2016 14 bronze socketed axes and 13 bronze ingot fragments.
Driffield Hoard II Late Bronze Age Driffield,
East Riding of Yorkshire
54°00′00″N 0°26′42″W / 54.000°N 0.445°W / 54.000; -0.445 (Driffield Hoard II)
2016 36 complete and 23 broken or fragmented socketed bronze axes, two nearly complete bun-shaped bronze ingots, and 91 bronze ingot fragments.
Duddingston Loch Hoard 950–750 BC Duddingston Loch
Edinburgh
55°56′N 3°09′W / 55.94°N 3.15°W / 55.94; -3.15 (Duddingston Loch Hoard)
1778 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 44 bronze items consisting of the ring of a large cauldron and fragments of spearheads, swords and dagger blades; point of a bronze spearhead; contorted bronze sword, broken in two, with three rivet holes and a slot in the hilt plate; contorted point of a bronze sword; blade of a bronze sword broken off under the hilt and bent back at the point.
Eggleston Hoard 1000-750 BC Eggleston,
County Durham
54°36′00″N 2°00′00″W / 54.600°N 2.000°W / 54.600; -2.000 (Gaerwen Hoard)
2019 Several bronze spearheads and knives, as well as some amber and jet beads
Fittleworth Hoard 1400-1100 BC Fittleworth,
West Sussex
50°57′56″N 0°33′50″W / 50.965636°N 0.563789°W / 50.965636; -0.563789 (Fittleworth Hoard)
1995 British Museum, London 2 gold penannular bracelets, 35 gold bars, 2 fragments of a torc, 2 rings
Gaerwen Hoard 1000-750 BC Gaerwen,
Anglesey
53°15′15″N 4°18′09″W / 53.254243°N 4.302382°W / 53.254243; -4.302382 (Gaerwen Hoard)
1852 British Museum, London 2 gold lock rings, 2 gold penannular bracelets
Havering hoard 900-800 BCE Rainham, London
(undisclosed site)
2018 Unknown (exhibited at Museum of London Docklands from 3 April to 25 October 2020 and subsequently at Havering Museum) Swords, socketed axe heads, spear heads, knives, daggers, woodwork tools, bracelets, ingots, and other items, weighing more than 45 kg in total
Heathery Burn Cave Hoard 1000-750 BC Heathery Burn Cave,
County Durham
54°45′56″N 2°01′15″W / 54.765549°N 2.020794°W / 54.765549; -2.020794 (Heathery Burn Cave Hoard)
1866 British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Yorkshire Museum, York 1 gold penannular bracelet, 1 gold lock-ring, 36 bronze awls, 20 pins, 14 axes, 11 rings, 11 cheek-pieces, 10 bracelets, 10 spear-heads, 8 pendants, 7 vessels, 6 wheels, 6 spatulas, 2 toggles, 2 knives, 2 swords, 4 scoops or chisels, 4 phaleras, casting moulds, fittings, a bowl and a bucket plus other miscellaneous items
Heights of Brae Hoard 8th to 7th century BC Heights of Brae
Dingwall, Highland
57°36′58″N 4°28′34″W / 57.616°N 4.476°W / 57.616; -4.476 (Heights of Brae Hoard)
1967 and 1979 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 3 gold cup-ended ornaments, 5 gold penannular armlets, and 1 corrugated gold band (a cup-ended ornament, a pennanular armlet and two additional items that are now lost were found during ploughing in 1967; the remaining seven items were found during archaeological investigation in 1979).
Hollingbourne Hoard Bronze axes from the Hollingbourne Hoard 10th to 9th century BC Hollingbourne
Kent
51°16′01″N 0°38′28″E / 51.267°N 0.641°E / 51.267; 0.641 (Hollingbourne Hoard)
2003 Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery 12 bronze axes and axe fragments
2 bronze sword hilt fragments
6 bronze sword blade fragments
2 bronze spearhead fragments
14 bronze ingots
Hollingbury Hoard 1400-1250 BC Hollingbury,
East Sussex
50°51′32″N 0°08′42″W / 50.8589774°N 0.145044°W / 50.8589774; -0.145044 (Hollingbury Hill Hoard)
1825 British Museum, London 4 bronze armlets, 3 rings, 1 palstave, 1 torc
Horsehope Craig Hoard 7th to 6th century BC near Peebles,
Peeblesshire
55°34′38″N 3°15′40″W / 55.577200°N 3.261175°W / 55.577200; -3.261175 (Horsehope Craig Hoard)
1865 Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Peebles and National Museum of Scotland 15 bronze rings, 2 socketed axes, 1 rapier, 28 objects in all, thought to be elements of horse harness and cart mountings
Husband's Bosworth Hoard Late Bronze Age Husbands Bosworth
Leicestershire
52°27′11″N 1°03′22″W / 52.453°N 1.056°W / 52.453; -1.056 (Husband's Bosworth Hoard)
1801 unknown 4 looped and socketed celts
2 socketed celts
3 socketed gouges
2 spearheads
1 flat ferrule
Isleham Hoard 8th century BC Isleham
Cambridgeshire
52°20′35″N 0°26′28″E / 52.343°N 0.441°E / 52.343; 0.441 (Isleham Hoard)
1959 West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
6,500 pieces of worked and unworked bronze
Lambourn Hoard The Lambourn Hoard 14th to 12th century BC Lambourn
Berkshire
51°30′32″N 1°31′52″W / 51.509°N 1.531°W / 51.509; -1.531 (Lambourn Hoard)
2004 West Berkshire Museum 2 gold armlets
3 gold bracelets
Langdon Bay Hoard 13th century BC In the English Channel at Langdon Bay
Kent
51°07′48″N 1°21′04″E / 51.13°N 1.351°E / 51.13; 1.351 (Langdon Bay Hoard)
1974 British Museum, London 360 items of scrap metal, including bronze axes of a French type
Langton Matravers Hoard 7th century BC Langton Matravers, near Swanage
Dorset
50°36′32″N 2°00′22″W / 50.609°N 2.006°W / 50.609; -2.006 (Langton Matravers Hoard)
2008 Dorset Museum, Dorchester 276 complete socketed bronze axes, 107 halves of socketed bronze axes and 117 fragments of socketed bronze axes in three adjacent pits and one pit further away
Lewes Hoard Items from the Lewes Hoard 16th to 12th century BC near Lewes
East Sussex
51°04′N 2°05′W / 51.06°N 2.08°W / 51.06; -2.08 (Near Lewes Hoard)
2011 79 objects in a pottery vessel, including 3 bronze palstaves, 5 bronze bracelets, 8 bronze finger rings, 4 bronze tutuli (also known as Monkswood ornaments), 4 gold discs, 1 bronze pin, 19 amber beads and 4 bronze torcs
Llanarmon-yn-Iâl Hoard 16th to mid 8th century BC Llanarmon-yn-Iâl
Denbighshire
53°06′00″N 3°12′36″W / 53.100°N 3.210°W / 53.100; -3.210 (Near Llanarmon-yn-Iâl Hoard)
1982 Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales 1 socketed bronze axe, 2 gold bracelets, a broken gold link, and a gold ingot
Lockington Hoard 21st to 20th century BC Lockington
Leicestershire
52°50′53″N 1°18′29″W / 52.848°N 1.308°W / 52.848; -1.308 (Lockington Hoard)
1994 British Museum, London fragments of 2 Beaker style pots
1 copper alloy dagger
2 embossed gold-sheet armlets
Manorbier Hoard 10th to 9th century BC Manorbier
Dyfed
51°39′N 4°48′W / 51.65°N 4.80°W / 51.65; -4.80 (Manorbier Hoard)
2010 19 bronze and copper artefacts, including socketed axes, a gouge, a piece of a sword blade, a circular dish-headed pin, ingots and bronze casting bi-products
Marston St. Lawrence Hoard 1300-800 BC Marston St. Lawrence,
Northamptonshire
52°04′42″N 1°13′15″W / 52.078284°N 1.220759°W / 52.078284; -1.220759 (Marston St. Lawrence Hoard)
c.1897 British Museum, London 4 bronze spear-heads, 2 swords, 2 stone whetstones, 1 bracelet, 1 ferrule
Meldreth Hoard 1300-800 BC Meldreth,
Cambridgeshire
52°06′04″N 0°00′24″E / 52.101092°N 0.006779°E / 52.101092; 0.006779 (Meldreth Hoard)
1880 British Museum, London 25 bronze axes, 15 ingots, 5 spear-heads, 4 swords, 2 bucket handles, 1 gouge, 1 razor, 1 finger ring, 1 chisel
Mickleham Hoard 10th to 11th century BC Mickleham
Surrey
51°16′05″N 0°19′16″W / 51.268°N 0.321°W / 51.268; -0.321 (Mickleham Hoard)
2003 2 socketed axes
1 chape
Migdale Hoard 23rd to 20th century BC Bonar Bridge
Sutherland
57°54′14″N 4°19′37″W / 57.904°N 4.327°W / 57.904; -4.327 (Migdale Hoard)
1900 Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 1 bronze axe head
sets of bronze bangles and anklets
a set of jet and cannel coal buttons
bronze hair ornaments
fragments of a bronze headdress
Milton Keynes Hoard Gold torcs and bracelets from the Milton Keynes Hoard mid 12th to late 9th century BC Monkston, Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
52°02′10″N 0°42′00″W / 52.036°N 0.700°W / 52.036; -0.700 (Milton Keynes Hoard)
2000 British Museum, London 2 gold torcs
3 gold bracelets
1 bronze fragment
1 pottery vessel
Moor Sand Hoard 13th century BC Off Prawle Point, near Salcombe
Devon
50°12′00″N 3°43′30″W / 50.200°N 3.725°W / 50.200; -3.725 (Moor Sand Hoard)
1977 British Museum, London six bronze swords or sword fragments and two bronze palstaves
Morvah Hoard 1000-750 BC Morvah,
Cornwall
50°09′40″N 5°38′18″W / 50.161148°N 5.638244°W / 50.161148; -5.638244 (Morvah Hoard)
1884 British Museum, London 6 gold penannular bracelets
New Bradwell (or Wolverton) Hoard mid 12th to late 9th century BC New Bradwell, Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
52°03′54″N 0°47′53″W / 52.065°N 0.798°W / 52.065; -0.798 (New Bradwell Hoard)
1879 Buckinghamshire County Museum 9 bronze socketed axes
3 broken axes
1 palstave
2 spearheads
a leaf-shaped sword (broken into 4 pieces)
Ockham Hoard Middle Bronze Age Ockham, Surrey 2013 Guildford Museum six unlooped palstave axes of which four are ribbed examples, and two plain; two Sussex loop bracelets; and two spiral finger rings
Peebles Hoard (unofficial name as of 10 August  2020 (2020 -08-10)) 9th century BC ?? (undisclosed site) near Peebles 2020 National Museums Scotland bronze horse harness fittings
Plymstock Hoard 2150-1600 BC Plymstock,
Devon
50°21′25″N 4°05′24″W / 50.356944°N 4.09°W / 50.356944; -4.09 (Plymstock Hoard)
1869 British Museum, London 12 bronze axes, 3 daggers, 1 spear-head, 1 chisel
Rossett Hoard The Rossett Hoard 10th to 9th century BC Rossett
Wrexham
53°06′32″N 2°56′42″W / 53.109°N 2.945°W / 53.109; -2.945 (Rossett Hoard)
2002 National Museum Cardiff 1 faceted axe
1 tanged knife
4 pieces of gold bracelet stored inside the axe
Selborne Hoard 1400-1250 BC Woolmer Forest near Selborne,
Hampshire
51°05′02″N 0°51′31″W / 51.083993°N 0.858523°W / 51.083993; -0.858523 (Selbourne Hoard)
1840 British Museum, London 3 bronze armlets, 2 rings, 1 bracelet, 1 spear-head, 1 palstave
St Erth hoards Bronze axe head from St Erth hoard 8th to 9th century BC St Erth
Cornwall
50°09′58″N 5°26′13″W / 50.166°N 5.437°W / 50.166; -5.437 (St Erth hoards)
2002–2003 Royal Cornwall Museum 2 gold ornament fragments
Bronze/copper hoard 1: 5 sword pieces, 3 socketed axe pieces, 1 socketed gouge piece, 1 knife fragment, 1 plate-like fragment, 16 ingot fragments or amorphous lumps
Bronze/copper hoard 2: 1 winged axe, 1 plate-like spill, 15 ingot fragments
St Mellons Hoard Late Bronze Age St Mellons, Cardiff
Glamorgan
51°31′08″N 3°06′50″W / 51.519°N 3.114°W / 51.519; -3.114 (St Mellons Hoard)
1983 National Museum Cardiff 25 bronze socketed axes and one casting jet
Stogursey Hoard (1870) 8th century BC Wick Farm, Stogursey
Somerset
51°11′20″N 3°06′40″W / 51.189°N 3.111°W / 51.189; -3.111 (Stogursey Hoard)
1870 Museum of Somerset 20 sword fragments
29 socketed axes
37 socketed axe fragments
2 palstaves
2 gouges
2 knives or daggers
1 chape
20 spearheads
34 other bronze fragments
Stonnall Hoard Some contemporary sketches of the hoard Bronze Age Gainsborough Hill Farm, Stonnall
Staffordshire
52°37′19″N 1°53′28″W / 52.622°N 1.891°W / 52.622; -1.891 (Stonnall Hoard)
1824 Unknown 2 swords
1 spearhead and 2 fragments of same
4 ferrules
2 cylinders
3 rings
2 pommels
3 celts
1 lump of copper
1 lump of lead
Stretham Hoard 1300-1000 BC Stretham,
Cambridgeshire
52°21′00″N 0°13′14″E / 52.349933°N 0.220663°E / 52.349933; 0.220663 (Stretham Hoard)
1850 British Museum, London, Hunt Museum, Limerick 1 gold torc, 1 gold bracelet, 6 ribbed rings, 1 bronze rapier
Tarves Hoard 1000-850 BC Tarves,
Aberdeenshire
57°21′26″N 2°13′24″W / 57.3570858°N 2.2234368°W / 57.3570858; -2.2234368 (Tarves Hoard)
1858 British Museum, London 3 bronze swords, 1 pommel, 1 chape and 2 pins
Tisbury Hoard Bronze axe heads from the Tisbury hoard 9th to 8th century BC Tisbury
Wiltshire
51°04′N 2°05′W / 51.06°N 2.09°W / 51.06; -2.09 (Tisbury Hoard)
2011 114 bronze items, including weapons and tools (sword hilts, sword blades, spearheads, axeheads, gouges, chisels, sickles and knives), pieces of jewellery, razors and other miscellaneous items
Tisbury Treasure 1100-750 BC Tisbury,
Wiltshire
51°04′N 2°05′W / 51.06°N 2.09°W / 51.06; -2.09 (Tisbury Treasure)
Before 1897 British Museum, London 6 gold penannular bracelets
Towednack Hoard 10th century BC Towednack
Cornwall
50°11′28″N 5°31′12″W / 50.191°N 5.520°W / 50.191; -5.520 (Towednack Hoard)
1931 British Museum, London 2 twisted gold neckrings
4 gold bracelets
3 lengths of gold rod
Urquhart Hoard 1400-1100 BC Urquhart,
Moray
57°39′07″N 3°11′46″W / 57.651853°N 3.19608°W / 57.651853; -3.19608 (Urquhart Hoard)
1857 British Museum, London, Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 36 or 37 originally, 7 gold ribbon torcs in BM, 3 in NMS and 1 in MM
Walderslade Hoard 1000-750 BC Walderslade,
Kent
51°20′06″N 0°31′07″E / 51.33494°N 0.5187°E / 51.33494; 0.5187 (Walderslade Hoard)
1965 British Museum, London 2 gold penannular bracelets
Wanlass Hoard 1100-750 BC Wanlass,
North Yorkshire
54°18′03″N 1°54′12″W / 54.300885°N 1.9032°W / 54.300885; -1.9032 (Wanlass Hoard)
1862 British Museum, London 4 gold penannular bracelets
Whalley Hoard 1000-750 BC Whalley,
Lancashire
53°49′28″N 2°24′12″W / 53.82454°N 2.403295°W / 53.82454; -2.403295 (Wanlass Hoard)
1966 British Museum, London 1 gold penannular bracelet, 1 gold lock-ring, 2 axes, 1 knife, 1 sword blade, 1 socketed gouge and 1 lead stud

See also

  • List of hoards in Britain
  • List of Iron Age hoards in Britain
  • List of Roman hoards in Britain
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