List of Bronze Age hoards in Great Britain

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
Arreton Down Hoard		1700-1500 BC	Arreton Down, Isle of Wight	1735	British Museum, London	7 bronze spear-heads, 4 axes, 1 dagger, 1 halberd
Auchnacree Hoard		23rd to 21st century BC	Auchnacree Angus	1921	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	2 bronze knives 3 bronze axeheads 1 bronze armlet
Beachy Head Hoard		1400-750 BC	Beachy Head, East Sussex	1824	British Museum, London	4 gold penannular bracelets
Beaumaris Hoard		1400-1100 BC	Beaumaris, Anglesey	1849	British Museum, London	2 gold penannular bracelets
Bexley Hoard		1000-750 BC	Bexley, London	1906	British Museum, London	17 gold penannular bracelets (one broken in half)
Boughton Malherbe Hoard		9th century BC	Boughton Malherbe Kent	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		Bronze Age	Burnham-on-Crouch Essex	2010	Colchester and Ipswich Museums	pottery vessel filled with bronze axes and other metalwork
Burton Hoard		13th to mid 12th century BC	Burton, Wrexham Clwyd	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	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	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	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	2003	Museum of Canterbury	188 fragments (including axe, chisel, palstave, hammer, gouge, knife, sickle, sword, bracelet, ring, and ingots)
Duddingston Loch Hoard		950–750 BC	Duddingston Loch Edinburgh	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.
Gaerwen Hoard		1000-750 BC	Gaerwen, Anglesey	1852	British Museum, London	2 gold lock rings, 2 gold penannular bracelets
Fittleworth Hoard		1400-1100 BC	Fittleworth, West Sussex	1995	British Museum, London	2 gold penannular bracelets, 35 gold bars, 2 fragments of a torc, 2 rings
Heathery Burn Cave Hoard		1000-750 BC	Heathery Burn Cave, County Durham	1866	British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Yorkshire Museum, York	1 gold penannular braclet, 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	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		10th to 9th century BC	Hollingbourne Kent	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	1825	British Museum, London	4 bronze armlets, 3 rings, 1 palstave, 1 torc
Husband's Bosworth Hoard		Late Bronze Age	Husbands Bosworth Leicestershire	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	1959	West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge	6,500 pieces of worked and unworked bronze
Lambourn Hoard		14th to 12th century BC	Lambourn Berkshire	2004	West Berkshire Museum	2 gold armlets 3 gold bracelets
Langdon Bay Hoard		13th century BC	In the English Channel at Langdon Bay Kent	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	2008	Dorset County 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		16th to 12th century BC	near Lewes East Sussex	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
Lockington Hoard		21st to 20th century BC	Lockington Leicestershire	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	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	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	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	2003		2 socketed axes 1 chape
Migdale Hoard		23rd to 20th century BC	Bonar Bridge Sutherland	1990	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		mid 12th to late 9th century BC	Monkston, Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire	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	1977	British Museum, London	six bronze swords or sword fragments and two bronze palstaves
Morvah Hoard		1000-750 BC	Morvah, Cornwall	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	1879	Buckinghamshire County Museum	9 bronze socketed axes 3 broken axes 1 palstave 2 spearheads a leaf-shaped sword (broken into 4 pieces)
Parc-y-Meirch Hoard		9th century BC	Dinorben hillfort, near Abergele Conwy	pre-1868	National Museum Cardiff	over 100 items of bronze horse harness fittings
Plymstock Hoard		2150-1600 BC	Plymstock, Devon	1869	British Museum, London	12 bronze axes, 3 daggers, 1 spear-head, 1 chisel
Rossett Hoard		10th to 9th century BC	Rossett Wrexham	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	1840	British Museum, London	3 bronze armlets, 2 rings, 1 bracelet, 1 spear-head, 1 palstave
St Erth hoards		8th to 9th century BC	St Erth Cornwall	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	1983	National Museum Cardiff	25 bronze socketed axes and one casting jet
Stogursey Hoard (1870)		8th century BC	Wick Farm, Stogursey Somerset	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
Stretham Hoard		1300-1000 BC	Stretham, Cambridgeshire	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	1858	British Museum, London	3 bronze swords, 1 pommel, 1 chape and 2 pins
Tisbury Hoard		9th to 8th century BC	Tisbury Wiltshire	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	Before 1897	British Museum, London	6 gold penannular bracelets
Towednack Hoard		10th century BC	Towednack Cornwall	1931	British Museum, London	2 twisted gold neckrings 4 gold bracelets 3 lengths of gold rod
Urquhart Hoard		1400-1100 BC	Urquhart, Moray	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	1965	British Museum, London	2 gold penannular bracelets
Wanlass Hoard		1100-750 BC	Wanlass, North Yorkshire	1862	British Museum, London	4 gold penannular bracelets
Whalley Hoard		1000-750 BC	Whalley, Lancashire	1966	British Museum, London	1 gold penannular braclet, 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