Posted on 10/31/2010 7:07:59 PM PDT by decimon
Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of Bronze Age axe heads, spear tips and other 3,000-year-old metal objects buried in an Essex field.
The items include an intact pottery container with heavy contents which has been removed undisturbed.
The materials are now at a local museum where archaeologists hope to uncover new insights into Bronze Age Britain.
"This is a really exciting find," said local archaeologist Laura McLean.
"To find a hoard still located in its Bronze Age context, below the level of ploughed soil, is very rare. The fact that there is pottery involved makes the find even more unusual."
The location was reported to archaeologists at Colchester and Ipswich Museums by a landowner from the Burnham-on-Crouch area and Mr J Humphreys, a metal detectorist.
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Totally cool. I love this sort of stuff. Thanks for posting.
You’re welcome. I’m impressed with how well formed those ax heads look.
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So why did the farmer bury his stuff like that? Well, a clue might be the ARRIVAL of some people from Galicia in Northern Spain. Although the main leadership elite of the Celts who came to dominate Galicia didn't arrive until about 700 BC (the Milesians) that area had been a jumping off place for advanced Black Sea/Mediterranean Celts and their leather boats for a couple of hundred years.
I suspect they went on raids for red haired women or something (maybe tin).
The Galician version of the Royal Annals is very consistent with this dating ~
Worth noting that Essex/Wessex/Sussex/etcsex/exes ~ whatever they want to call it, originally had a Celtic name that derives its structure from a Celtic language that went extinct in the Early Middle Ages, but which was commonly used among the Mediterranean "seafaring" Celts.
No doubt it had some other name before the Milesians arrived but we don't know what that might have been because they forgot to write it down because they were totally illiterate at that time.
Interesting that they used “cling film” (Saran Wrap or Press n Seal)to block the find. I believe that plaster of paris was once the only school solution.
Ax me no questions, I'll fell you no lies.
Coke cans, plastic baby diapers, nylon fishing line, styrofoam cups, McDonalds fries, etc. Not going to look as good on display in a museum as this ancient material does.
I adze some comments when I can.
Very interesting an significant find. Last year there was a major find of gold relics that was recovered from another English field that had been cultivated for years, but was recently explored by another fellow with a metal detector. As I recall the find was worth Millions, and both the fellow who found it and the landowner both make abunch of money from the find.
I lived in Norwich for three years while on active duty. I always felt you could stick a spade in the ground anywhere and find an artifact. What an amazing find. Thanks for posting it. I was at RAF Lakenheath when they had to halt construction of the a new post office because they found a burial site for a Viking on his horse.
Some things never change.
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