| Name: | Boreham-Plantation Road |
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| SMR Number: | 6180 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 758 100 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL71SE |
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| Parish: | BOREHAM, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
3 socketed axes and some pieces of bronze cake were found in Plantation Road during the 1960s.
Full description
3 socketed axes and some pieces of bronze cake were found in Plantation Road during the 1960s. The cake was thrown away and one of the axes disappeared. The Passmore Edwards Museum acquired the other two in 1972. The find spot's exact location is not known but possibly these finds once formed part of the same hoard as that found in 1984 at 72 Plantation Road (see 6179). Like that hoard these items are part of the Ewart Park phase of the late bronze age <1> <2> Drawings of the 2 axes are in the SMR <3>
<1> Buckley, DG, Brown, NR and Greenwood, P, 1986, Late Bronze Age Hoards from the Chelmer Valley, Essex (EXCAV REPORT). SEX20787.
<2> Passmore Edwards Museum, unknown, ARTEFACT PEM, Acc Nos 4005, 4006 (Artifact). SEX847.
<3> unknown, unknown, SMR (Graphic material). SEX134.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- METAL WORKING DEBRIS (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
- SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 4.6
- Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 4
Sources and further reading
| <1> | EXCAV REPORT: Buckley, DG, Brown, NR and Greenwood, P. 1986. Late Bronze Age Hoards from the Chelmer Valley, Essex. |
| <2> | Artifact: Passmore Edwards Museum. unknown. ARTEFACT PEM. Acc Nos 4005, 4006. |
| <3> | Graphic material: unknown. unknown. SMR. |
Related records
| 6181 | Parent of: Boreham-Plantation Road 144 (Find Spot) |
| 6179 | Part of: Boreham-Plantation Road 72 (Find Spot) |
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