Festive Countdown... 'hoards & all'

We seek them here, we find them there,

in this county hoards are everywhere.

But patterns and differences make us pause:

surely a ...

Something is missing, have you noticed?

It's all the wood, the handles, leather wrappings & pouches

The wooden hafts etc. were not ...

I'm dreaming of our bright axes*

Just like the ones found years ago

Where the ribs are shiny and blades all glisten

And ...

End-winged or socketed

how do they differ?

The name tells it all

but the picture is bigger.

One is hafted by bending the wings ...

The axes were hung by the chimney with care

In hope that St Wolfgang soon 'wood' be there!*

Conserved socketed axes from ...

Decorate the halls

or decorate your chariot or wooden box or??

Ornaments, weapons, tools and metalworking waste;

fresh and used, whole and broken.

A smith's collection, group offering or metal debased?

Symbolic, practical or ...

This treasure find is a special hoard,

so we're cleaning it carefully 

to find out more.

This is the largest single Late Bronze ...

December is here, let us bring you some cheer

with axes & treasures galore 

from the Boughton Malherbe hoard!

Image by Sophia ...

Moulds and making
Better than Great British Baking!*

Bronze moulds for casting bronze axes have been found in hoards in northwestern Europe ...

Christmas: ghosts, past & present.

Wishing you a bright & shiny future in 2021

A) x-rays of axes from the Boughton Malherbe ...

On the 1st day of Christmas the hoard gave to me:

1 sword fragment.

On the second day of Christmas the hoard ...

Some hoards are massive

but most are small

many dispersed by plough

or partially in-situ

base of Hollingbourne Hoard, the only part not disturbed ...

We three elves from zooms afar

invite you to hear about our work so far

on the conservation & study of the Boughton ...

In the bottom of a pit* 

Near the top of a field

64kg of bronze & copper objects were revealed

Boughton Malherbe, Kent, ...

Axes number 108,

some only pieces, but 25 complete.

This one here is especially great,

'cos the two broken parts do perfectly meet.

Boughton Malherbe hoard

Image ...

All the objects were gathered, weighed & measured

With sincere thanks to:

the Portable Antiquities Scheme; the ...

We've started with axes 'cos there are so many

They're so well known yet under studied

Image redrawn from Schmidt & Burgess ...

The morning after the night before,

smashed bits & pieces all over the floor.

But for hoards these pieces tell so much ...

Spot the difference:

A. Bronze Age copper bun ingot 

B. Covid Age very dense loaf of bread

- One the result of a ...

Hark the polished axes sing!

These end-winged axes and single adze from the Boughton Malherbe Hoard have been carefully cleaned (not ...

fill your boots, stockings or perhaps an axe

this festive countdown is full of facts

broken axe stuffed with a possible pommel ...

Cleaned and up close

the details reveal

tool marks & use-wear

the dirt did conceal

Boughton Malherbe axe blade cutting edge. Possible evidence for ...