Findspot record TR 26 NE 1343 - Late Bronze Age Hoard

The finding of the Minnis Bay hoard in August/September 1938 by 14 year old Jimmy Beck and its subsequent excavation recovered 51 pieces of bronze, and many sherds. During these excavations Beck began to think that he had found the site of a Bronze Age fishing village built round an open space on the banks of the creek that once flowed out to sea at this point in Minnis Bay. Beck wrote an article on his find for his school magazine. This is one of two Hoards discovered at Minnis Bay, the first was recorded in 1904 and both are likely associated with the evidence for late Bronze Age activity which has also been recorded along the Foreshore at Minnis Bay. (1)

<1> Trevor and Vera Gibbons, 2018, The Archaeological Pits of Minnis Bay, Birchington, Kent 2000 - 600BC Bronze age and Early Iron Age (Unpublished document). SKE58996.