Late Bronze Age axeheads, north of Ferriers farm (EHER 9340)

Late Bronze Age socketed and looped axe and fragment of another similar axe found.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: A bronze looped socketed axe-head was found with a small piece of similar axe and other fragments (not available for study) during mineral extraction in 1948 by Mr Hicks, the quarry manager. The axe is of south-eastern type and of the mid 8th to mid 7th century BC and seems likely to have been part of a small personal hoard. Axe is illustrated in this source. <1> The axe is 95mm long with two slightly raised ribs on the broad faces immediately below the collar. Drawing in HER. The axe was with Mr Hicks in 1978. <2> - <4> The axe was found 3 feet deep on the edge of a large gravel pit. In 1975 they were on loan to Mr Creek, headmaster of the school at Bures. <5> June 1950. Field visit. In 1948, a late Bronze Age socketed and looped axe and part of another similar axe were found, 3 feet deep, at TL 89413411, on the edge of a large gravel pit at Bures Hamlet. They were found by E. Hicks, the foreman of the gravel pit who indicated the find-site and are on loan to Mr Creek, the headmaster of the school at Bures. These finds could have belonged to a founders hoard destroyed by the drag-line excavator. <6>