List of Bronze Age hoards in Great Britain facts for kids

The Bronze Age hoards of Britain are amazing collections of valuable items found buried in Great Britain. These treasures include jewelry, precious metals, tools, and other important objects from the Bronze Age in Britain. This period lasted from about 2700 BC to the 8th century BC.

Some hoards were buried by people who planned to dig them up later. These could be personal stashes, a metalworker's supplies, a merchant's goods, or even hidden loot. Other hoards were buried as votive offerings, which means they were gifts to gods or spirits and were not meant to be found again. This list does not include items found in graves or single items found alone.

List of Hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Adabrock Hoard		1000-800 BC	Adabroc, Isle of Lewis	1910	National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Bronze axeheads, spearhead, gouge, hammer, razors, vessel fragments, whetstones, and beads of glass, amber, and gold.
Arreton Down Hoard		1700-1500 BC	Arreton Down, Isle of Wight	1735	British Museum, London	Bronze spear-heads, axes, dagger, halberd.
Auchnacree Hoard		23rd to 21st century BC	Auchnacree, Angus	1921	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Bronze knives, axeheads, and an armlet.
Beachy Head Hoard		1400-750 BC	Beachy Head, East Sussex	1824	British Museum, London	Four gold penannular bracelets.
Beaumaris Hoard		1400-1100 BC	Beaumaris, Anglesey	1849	British Museum, London	Two gold penannular bracelets.
Bexley Hoard		1000-750 BC	Bexley, London	1906	British Museum, London	Seventeen gold penannular bracelets (one broken).
Boughton Malherbe Hoard		9th century BC	Boughton Malherbe, Kent	2011	Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery	Over 350 bronze objects, including weapon fragments, tools, ornaments, and ingots.
Burnham-on-Crouch Hoard		Bronze Age	Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex	2010	Colchester and Ipswich Museums	A pottery pot filled with bronze axes and other metal items.
Burton Hoard		13th to mid 12th century BC	Burton, Wrexham, Clwyd	2004	National Museum Cardiff	Bronze palstaves, chisel, gold torc, gold bracelet, gold pendant, gold beads, gold rings, and a pottery pot.
Chrishall Hoard		1300-800 BC	Chrishall, Essex	c. 1853	British Museum, London	Bronze axes, swords, ingot, and a spear-head.
Collette Hoard		10th to 9th century BC	Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland	2005	Great North Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne	Socketed axes, gold lock rings, bracelets, rings, and pins.
Corbridge Hoard		Middle Bronze Age	Corbridge, Northumberland	1835	Blackgate Museum, Bailiffgate Museum	Fragments of spearheads, dagger blades, and a flanged axe.
Crundale Hoard		8th to 9th century BC	Crundale, Kent	2003	Museum of Canterbury	188 fragments, including parts of axes, chisels, palstaves, hammers, gouges, knives, sickles, swords, bracelets, rings, and ingots.
Driffield Hoard I		Late Bronze Age	Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire	2016		Fourteen bronze socketed axes and thirteen bronze ingot fragments.
Driffield Hoard II		Late Bronze Age	Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire	2016		Thirty-six complete and twenty-three broken socketed bronze axes, two bun-shaped bronze ingots, and ninety-one bronze ingot fragments.
Duddingston Loch Hoard		950–750 BC	Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh	1778	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Forty-four bronze items, including parts of a cauldron, spearheads, swords, and dagger blades.
Eggleston Hoard		1000-750 BC	Eggleston, County Durham	2019		Bronze spearheads, knives, and amber and jet beads.
Fittleworth Hoard		1400-1100 BC	Fittleworth, West Sussex	1995	British Museum, London	Two gold penannular bracelets, thirty-five gold bars, two torc fragments, and two rings.
Gaerwen Hoard		1000-750 BC	Gaerwen, Anglesey	1852	British Museum, London	Two gold lock rings and two gold penannular bracelets.
Havering hoard		900-800 BCE	Rainham, London (site not revealed)	2018	Unknown (exhibited at Museum of London Docklands and Havering Museum)	Swords, socketed axe heads, spear heads, knives, daggers, woodworking tools, bracelets, ingots, and other items, weighing over 45 kg.
Heathery Burn Cave Hoard		1000-750 BC	Heathery Burn Cave, County Durham	1866	British Museum, London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Yorkshire Museum, York	A gold penannular bracelet, a gold lock-ring, and many bronze items like awls, pins, axes, rings, bracelets, spear-heads, pendants, vessels, and casting moulds.
Heights of Brae Hoard		8th to 7th century BC	Heights of Brae, Dingwall, Highland	1967 and 1979	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Gold cup-ended ornaments, gold penannular armlets, and a corrugated gold band.
Hollingbourne Hoard		10th to 9th century BC	Hollingbourne, Kent	2003	Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery	Bronze axes and fragments, sword hilt and blade fragments, spearhead fragments, and bronze ingots.
Hollingbury Hoard		1400-1250 BC	Hollingbury, East Sussex	1825	British Museum, London	Bronze armlets, rings, a palstave, and a torc.
Horsehope Craig Hoard		7th to 6th century BC	near Peebles, Peeblesshire	1865	Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Peebles and National Museum of Scotland	Bronze rings, socketed axes, a rapier, and other objects thought to be horse harness and cart parts.
Husband's Bosworth Hoard		Late Bronze Age	Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire	1801	unknown	Looped and socketed celts, socketed gouges, spearheads, and a 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	Two gold armlets and three 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 French-style bronze axes.
Langton Matravers Hoard		7th century BC	Langton Matravers, near Swanage, Dorset	2008	Dorset Museum, Dorchester	Over 500 complete and broken socketed bronze axes found in pits.
Lewes Hoard		16th to 12th century BC	near Lewes, East Sussex	2011		79 objects in a pottery pot, including bronze palstaves, bracelets, finger rings, tutuli, gold discs, a bronze pin, amber beads, and bronze torcs.
Llanarmon-yn-Iâl Hoard		16th to mid 8th century BC	Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire	1982	Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales	A socketed bronze axe, two gold bracelets, a broken gold link, and a gold ingot.
Lockington Hoard		21st to 20th century BC	Lockington, Leicestershire	1994	British Museum, London	Fragments of two Beaker style pots, a copper alloy dagger, and two embossed gold-sheet armlets.
Manorbier Hoard		10th to 9th century BC	Manorbier, Dyfed	2010		Nineteen bronze and copper items, including socketed axes, a gouge, a sword blade piece, a pin, ingots, and casting leftovers.
Marston St. Lawrence Hoard		1300-800 BC	Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire	c.1897	British Museum, London	Bronze spear-heads, swords, stone whetstones, a bracelet, and a ferrule.
Meldreth Hoard		1300-800 BC	Meldreth, Cambridgeshire	1880	British Museum, London	Twenty-five bronze axes, fifteen ingots, spear-heads, swords, bucket handles, a gouge, a razor, a finger ring, and a chisel.
Mickleham Hoard		10th to 11th century BC	Mickleham, Surrey	2003		Two socketed axes and a chape.
Migdale Hoard		23rd to 20th century BC	Bonar Bridge, Sutherland	1900	Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	A bronze axe head, bronze bangles and anklets, jet and cannel coal buttons, bronze hair ornaments, and fragments of a bronze headdress.
Milton Keynes Hoard		mid 12th to late 9th century BC	Monkston, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire	2000	British Museum, London	Two gold torcs, three gold bracelets, a bronze fragment, and a pottery pot.
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	Six gold penannular bracelets.
New Bradwell (or Wolverton) Hoard		mid 12th to late 9th century BC	New Bradwell, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire	1879	Buckinghamshire County Museum	Nine bronze socketed axes, three broken axes, a palstave, two spearheads, and a leaf-shaped sword (broken).
Ockham Hoard		Middle Bronze Age	Ockham, Surrey	2013	Guildford Museum	Six unlooped palstave axes, two Sussex loop bracelets, and two spiral finger rings.
Peebles Hoard (unofficial name)		9th century BC ??	(site not revealed) near Peebles	2020	National Museums Scotland	Bronze horse harness fittings.
Plymstock Hoard		2150-1600 BC	Plymstock, Devon	1869	British Museum, London	Twelve bronze axes, three daggers, a spear-head, and a chisel.
Rossett Hoard		10th to 9th century BC	Rossett, Wrexham	2002	National Museum Cardiff	A faceted axe, a tanged knife, and four pieces of a gold bracelet found inside the axe.
Selborne Hoard		1400-1250 BC	Woolmer Forest near Selborne, Hampshire	1840	British Museum, London	Three bronze armlets, two rings, a bracelet, a spear-head, and a palstave.
St Erth hoards		8th to 9th century BC	St Erth, Cornwall	2002–2003	Royal Cornwall Museum	Two gold ornament fragments, and two hoards of bronze/copper items including sword pieces, axe pieces, a gouge, a knife fragment, and ingot fragments.
St Mellons Hoard		Late Bronze Age	St Mellons, Cardiff, Glamorgan	1983	National Museum Cardiff	Twenty-five bronze socketed axes and one casting jet.
Stogursey Hoard (1870)		8th century BC	Wick Farm, Stogursey, Somerset	1870	Museum of Somerset	Twenty sword fragments, twenty-nine socketed axes, axe fragments, palstaves, gouges, knives or daggers, a chape, spearheads, and other bronze fragments.
Stonnall Hoard		Bronze Age	Gainsborough Hill Farm, Stonnall, Staffordshire	1824	Unknown	Two swords, a spearhead and fragments, ferrules, cylinders, rings, pommels, celts, and lumps of copper and lead.
Stretham Hoard		1300-1000 BC	Stretham, Cambridgeshire	1850	British Museum, London, Hunt Museum, Limerick	A gold torc, a gold bracelet, six ribbed rings, and a bronze rapier.
Tarves Hoard		1000-850 BC	Tarves, Aberdeenshire	1858	British Museum, London	Three bronze swords, a pommel, a chape, and two pins.
Tisbury Hoard		9th to 8th century BC	Tisbury, Wiltshire	2011		114 bronze items, including weapons (sword hilts, blades, spearheads, axeheads), tools (gouges, chisels, sickles, knives), jewelry, razors, and other items.
Tisbury Treasure		1100-750 BC	Tisbury, Wiltshire	Before 1897	British Museum, London	Six gold penannular bracelets.
Towednack Hoard		10th century BC	Towednack, Cornwall	1931	British Museum, London	Two twisted gold neckrings, four gold bracelets, and three lengths of gold rod.
Urquhart Hoard		1400-1100 BC	Urquhart, Moray	1857	British Museum, London, Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh	Originally 36 or 37 items, including seven gold ribbon torcs in the British Museum, three in the National Museum of Scotland, and one in Marischal Museum.
Walderslade Hoard		1000-750 BC	Walderslade, Kent	1965	British Museum, London	Two gold penannular bracelets.
Wanlass Hoard		1100-750 BC	Wanlass, North Yorkshire	1862	British Museum, London	Four gold penannular bracelets.
Whalley Hoard		1000-750 BC	Whalley, Lancashire	1966	British Museum, London	A gold penannular bracelet, a gold lock-ring, two axes, a knife, a sword blade, a socketed gouge, and a lead stud.

See also

• List of hoards in Britain
• List of Iron Age hoards in Britain
• List of Roman hoards in Britain