{"id":2350,"date":"2015-02-04T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2015-02-04T19:32:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T19:32:48","slug":"vm_365-day-220-the-ebbsfleet-i-late-bronze-age-hoard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=2350","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 220 The Ebbsfleet I Late Bronze Age hoard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ebbsfleet I Hoard after R. Jessup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today’s\u00a0 image for Day 220 of the VM_365 project shows another of the Bronze Age hoards from Thanet, consisting of 181 pieces, weighing approximately 27.21 kg (60lbs).<\/p>\n

A description of the Hoard was\u00a0 given by George Payne in Archaeologia Cantiana after it was passed to him by Mr W.H. Hills of Ramsgate. The hoard was found on a farm at Ebbsfleet near Minster sometime before 1895.<\/p>\n

The objects include socketed axes, spear-heads, parts of swords and axes, belt fasteners or ‘bugle’ fittings, portions of a dagger, a knife, and a quantity of ingots.<\/p>\n

George Payne suggested that ‘These objects formed the stock in trade of a bronze founder, who went about from one settlement to another casting implements on the spot and taking old worn and broken ones as payment for new’.<\/em><\/p>\n

This interpretation persisted in the classification of hoards like this containing a mix of complete and broken objects as well as ingots of bronze as a Founders Hoard.<\/p>\n

Several of these Founders Hoards have been found on Thanet, some previously featured in VM_365 including nr. Manston (Day 194<\/a>, Day 196 <\/a>and Day 197<\/a>), The Beck Hoard<\/a> and Birchington III hoard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n

Payne, G. 1895, Researches and discoveries in Kent. Archaeologia Cantiana<\/em> 21, xlvii-lvi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Today’s\u00a0 image for Day 220 of the VM_365 project shows another of the Bronze Age hoards from Thanet, consisting of 181 pieces, weighing approximately 27.21 kg (60lbs). A description of the Hoard was\u00a0 given by George Payne in Archaeologia Cantiana after it was passed to him by Mr W.H. Hills of Ramsgate. The hoard … Continue reading VM_365 Day 220 The Ebbsfleet I Late Bronze Age hoard<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,53,8,1,39],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-bronze-age","category-bronze-hoards","category-ebbsfleet","category-from-the-archives","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project","tag-artefacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}