Late Bronze Age Founder's Hoard, found at Wandsworth, Surrey

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The late Bronze Age founder's hoard, which I have the honour of exhibiting, was found during excavations at the ‘Wandsworth Works’ of the Wandsworth, Wimbledon, and Epsom District Gas Company on IIth April 1923. The site is 150 yards south from the Thames, and was formerly known as ‘Church Walk’ and ‘Warple Road’, now both done away with. The soil had been considerably made up, and the hoard, which was in yellow sand, was about six feet from the present surface, but probably not more than about two feet from the original ground level. The weight of the hoard is about 9¾ lb. The objects, which were found together in a heap, are seventeen in number, and of these eight are lumps of founder's metal weighing together 6½ lb. From the dark red colour of the bronze it would seem that the percentage of tin is small, or it may be copper cake.