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Archaeology - Bronze Age
 
Baumber, Bronze Age bangle
Baumber, Bronze Age bangle
Baumber, Bronze Age bangle

This solid gold bangle was discovered at Baumber, near Horncastle in 1997.

It is the largest example of its type from Lincolnshire. It was made in the later Bronze Age, between c.900 and c.700BC, and may not actually ever have been completed.

Some hammer marks are still visible, which would undoubtedly have been polished out on a finished item.

The bangle has simple terminals and no other decoration.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

Baumber, Bronze Age, bangle
Billinghay, Bronze Age sword
Billinghay, Bronze Age sword
Billinghay, Bronze Age sword

The beautiful, sinuous lines of a Bronze Age sword are unmistakable.

Although fragments of Bronze Age swords are not uncommon, complete swords are still rare finds.

This sword, from Billinghay, was found in 1852.

It belongs to a series of swords known as the 'Ewart Park' type, dating to the late Bronze Age, c.950-800BC.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

Billinghay, Bronze Age sword, Ewart Park
Tathwell, Bully Hills Barrow
Tathwell, Bully Hills Barrow
Tathwell, Bully Hills Barrow

The picture depicts six round barrows of the Bronze Age cemetery at Bully Hills (TF330826). A seventh barrow lies some distance away from this group.

All are in a NE to SW line with one of the barrows clearly larger than the others - 60ft (18m) diameter and 10ft (3m) high.

This barrow seems to have been excavated or at least disturbed in the past, hence the central dip. 

Frank Robinson, 2010

Tathwell, bronze age, barrow, bully hills, cemetery,