Mann What A Find From Local Detectorists Bronze Age Hoard Now On Show At Colchester Castle

Four local detectorists Bill Hill, Clint Mann, Graham Starr and John Humphreys had the find of a lifetime when the unearthed what turned out to be a bronze age metal hoard hidden near on 3000 years ago and luckily we have the video of the experts carefully taking it out of the ground.

And this week the hoard was finally being displayed in Colchester Castle as can be seen below.

                                         

And on the 24th of January to celebrate the new display of the Burnham-on-Crouch Bronze Age hoard at Colchester Castle are inviting you to join them for a day of exploration and adventure.

During the Bronze Age, people deposited thousands of bronze objects into pits, rivers, bogs, and other places in the landscape. More than half of the bronze objects from this period were deposited as part of hoards. What were these hoards for? Why did people bury them?

Dr Rob Wiseman (Oxford Archaeology) will talk about some of the theories proposed over the last 150 years, and what hoards might tell us about the lives and societies of people who lived 3000 years ago.

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