TR 267598. A late Bronze Age hoard was found in 1974 at Hoaden on land belonging to Mr. Lewis Hayward. An unknown quantity of metalic objects were turned up by a potato-harvesting and shared out among the farm workers. One piece was identified as a bronze axe. Seven items have been traced (see illus) and they have been deposited in the Royal Museum, Canterbury. The find-spot was a low mound, about 8m. above sea-level, close to where the arable land joins the imbanked marshes that were once the Wantsum Channel. The hoard must have been deposited very near to the open water of the channel. The surface soil of the mound is a gravelly loam and was thoroughly searched between crops. No other traces of occupation were found. The hoard comprises:- Socketed axe (no.1) Length 9.4cm., maximum surviving width 4.2cm. Socketed axe (no.2) Length 10.3cm., width 4.6cm. Mouth fragment (no.3) of a facetted axe certainly broken in antiquity.Blade fragment of socketed axe (no.4) surviving length 8.3cm. Fragment of winged axe (no.5) broken in antiquity. Plain, leaf-shaped, pegged spearhead (no.6) surviving length 8.0cm. Fragment of metal from plano-convex ingot (no.7) maximum dimensions, 5.3cm. by 4.2cm. by 3.2cm. All the items in this hoard can be easily paralleled in Carp's Tongue/Ewart Park hoards of the ninth and eighth centuries B.C. (1)

<1> Arch Cant 97 1981 195-99 (TC Champion and JD Ogilvie) (OS Card Reference). SKE36275.