Havering hoard
The Havering hoard is a hoard of 453 late bronze-age artefacts found at a site overlooking the River Thames in Rainham, London, in 2018. It comprises swords, socketed axe heads, spear heads, knives, daggers, woodwork tools, bracelets, ingots, and other items, weighing more than 45 kg in total. The objects, almost all of which were damaged, were recovered from four separate individual and deliberately placed hoards within a large ancient enclosure ditch. The square enclosure had been identified on aerial photographs since the 1960s. The deliberate placement of the items may suggest a specialist metalworker operated in the area, and such a large-scale deposit of bronze may represent an accumulation of material like a vault, recycling bank, or exchange. Some items, including woodworking axe heads, are believed to be from continental Europe.
The Museum of London Docklands plans to display the Havering hoard in late 2020.
