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CHER Number:08172
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Late Bronze Age hoard, Bottisham Lode

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Parish:Lode, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Finds:

  • HOARD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
  • SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

1. A small hoard ( late BA ) from Bottisham Lode. 3socketed axes and the fragment of another.
2. Possible Late Bronze Age hoard, comprising 4 socketed axes.


<1> Salzman L.F. (ed), 1938, The Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Volume 1, 279 (Bibliographic reference). SCB14629.

<2> Pendleton, C., 1999, Bronze Age Metalwork in Northern East Anglia. A study of its distribution and interpretation, p.202 (Monograph). SCB19333.

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic reference: Salzman L.F. (ed). 1938. The Victoria County History of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. Volume 1. 279.
<2>Monograph: Pendleton, C.. 1999. Bronze Age Metalwork in Northern East Anglia. A study of its distribution and interpretation. p.202.