"Scrap metal" was bronze age hoard

Posted on Wednesday, 23 January, 2008 | 4 comments

A coach driver discovered Britain's largest hoard of Bronze Age axeheads while waiting for a party of school-children at a Dorset farm.Tom Peirce, 60, asked the farm's owner if he could use his metal detector in one of the fields during his lunchbreak.Within minutes he heard a loud beep and found part of a bronze axe.

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#1 Posted by 1.618 on 23 January, 2008, 8:37
I often wonder if these hoards were buried and the owners never had a chance to come back for them instead of them being ritual offerings or whatever.

#2 Posted by louie on 23 January, 2008, 8:58
Thats a cool find, ive been threatning for years to get my self a metal detector.

#3 Posted by :PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: on 23 January, 2008, 9:38
You should. You just never know what can be unearthed. You might find a similar jackpot from the past.

#4 Posted by Chokmah on 23 January, 2008, 9:40
Either that, or humans 3000 years ago were more like squirrels!

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