TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

they have rarely occurred in hoards in the north and
west of Britain. This is the first Sompting Type axe
hoard from Cornwall.
The bulk of the hoard comprises of 30 axes which
are strikingly similar in dimension and decoration,
and provisionally it seems likely that at least 29, if
not all 30 socketed axes, shared the same mould or
were made from the same initial ‘template’, or model.
While this extensive repetition of siblings is extremely
unusual in Late Bronze Age hoards, it is a feature of
some belonging to the transition and Early Iron Age,
however, ‘mould groups’ have also been suggested for
one large hoard of South Welsh/Stogursey axes (St
Mellon’s (Glamorgan). (Stanton 1984, 191–6). The
pre-eminent parallel for the hoard from Mylor is the
hoard from Figheldean Down (Wiltshire) which consists
of 21 socketed axes, all of which have a length of c.
125–140mm and are generally decorated with a similar
rib-and-pellet decoration (Coombs 1979, 253–68,).
Another striking similarity between these two hoards is
the fact many of the axes seem to come ‘straight from
the mould’, i.e. were deposited in as-cast condition.
Initial analysis of the Mylor axes suggests there are
no obvious signs of hammering, annealing or resharpening
after the casting process was completed.
Disposition: Royal Cornwall Museum.
D BRUNS & S P NEEDHAM
70. hopton, shropshire: Early bronze Age objects
(2005 T449) pAs ID: hEsh-298206 & hEsh-297346
Found by Mr R Petford while metal-detecting in
October 2005: two flat axes 100m apart across a field
boundary. Not Treasure, returned to finder.
S P NEEDHAM
71. Castleside area, Durham: middle bronze Age
base-metal group (2006 T299) pAs ID: NCL-FE25E4
& NCL-FDAF03
Found by Mr S Barrass while metal-detecting in
May 2006; two looped palstaves. Bowes Museum,
Barnard Castle had hoped to acquire but subsequently
withdrew; returned to finder.
R COLLINS
72. mid Essex: Late bronze Age sword blade
fragment & a later brass socketed artefact
(2006 T606) pAs ID: pAs-840704
Found by Heritage Writtle in the plough soil during
controlled archaeological excavation in July 2006; not
Treasure, returned to the main site archive.
P SEALEY
73. Great Ellingham, Norfolk: Late bronze Age
hoard addenda (2005 T450) pAs ID: Nms-23E5E6
Found by Mr M Dover while metal-detecting in
September 2005: two sword blade fragments and two
socketed axes, addenda to a scattered hoard discovered
in 1995. Disclaimed, returned to finder.
A ROGERSON
74. Ludham, Norfolk: Late bronze Age base-metal
hoard addendum (2006 T307) pAs ID: pAs-841C43
Found by Mr S Merralls while metal-detecting in April
or May 2006; one incomplete socketed axe, located
20m from another incomplete socketed axe found in
1985. Not Treasure, returned to finder.
A ROGERSON & S P NEEDHAM
75. bury st Edmunds area, suffolk: Late bronze Age
base-metal scatter (2006 T401) pAs ID: sF-297D16
Found by Mr C Holland while metal-detecting in
August 2006, over a 30 x 40m area; one incomplete
winged axe, five complete and two incomplete
socketed axes; eight socketed axe fragments; one
socketed axe or chisel fragment; two socketed
implement body fragments; one fragment; two
ingot fragments; three possible metalworking debris
fragments. Disclaimed, returned to finder.
F MINTER
76. orford area, suffolk: Late bronze Age
base-metal group (2005 T507) pAs ID: sF-b06bF7
Found by Mr A Calver while metal-detecting in October
2005: a spearhead & two joining blade fragments.
Disclaimed, returned to finder.
C PENDLETON & F MINTER
77. saxmundham area, suffolk: Late bronze Age
base-metal group (2006 T324) pAs ID: sF-13bAb8
Found by Mr D Bethell & Mr I Strowger while metaldetecting
in May 2006; one sword fragment, one
sword or sickle fragment, three spearhead fragments,
one spearhead or arrow fragment, fourteen socketed
axe fragments, three curved fragments, two flat
band fragments, 32 possible ingot fragments, one
metalworking debris fragment. Disclaimed, returned
to the finders.
C PENDLETON & B ROBERTS
78. Wantisden, suffolk: Late bronze Age hoard
addenda (2006 T589) pAs ID: sF-DC8632
Found by Mr K Wilcox while metal-detecting in
September 2006; three fragments of plate-scrap
‘ingots’, addenda to an original hoard of plate-scrap
(WNN 013) found in 2000 by the same finder.
Disclaimed, returned to finder.
C PENDLETON & F MINTER
79. pocklington area, East Riding of yorkshire:
Late bronze Age base-metal group (2006 T348)
pAs ID: yoRym-AF4C52
Found by Mr A Laverack while metal-detecting in
July 2006; two Ewart Park sword blade fragments.
Disclaimed, returned to finder.
S WORRELL
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