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  • Havering Hoard: Weapons found on building site to go on show

    10/31/2019 10:52:40 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 27 replies
    BBC ^ | October 21, 2019 | unattributed
    Ancient weapons discovered on a building site will go on display at the Museum of London Docklands. The group of 453 artefacts found in Havering, east London, is the third largest ever discovered in the UK... The find, which dates from between 800BC and 900BC, was officially declared treasure by a coroner earlier this year. The discovery, dubbed the Havering Hoard, was uncovered last September, and will form the centrepiece of a major exhibition from April. Archaeologists believed the manner in which the weapons had been so carefully buried in groups close together suggested the site could have been a...