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AN interesting find of Bronze Age material near Canterbury has recently been announced. It appears that a mechanical excavator working at a brick–field brought to light three spearheads, several celts both socketed and winged, part of a knife and fragments of a shallow cauldron together with an ingot of smelted bronze. Here, no doubt, we have the stock–in–trade of some travelling Bronze Age tinker collecting scrap and perhaps casting new types of tools—new lamps for old ! Naturally, the date when the hoard was collected or abandoned cannot have been earlier than that of the most recent tools it contains, and these would suggest that the tinker plied his trade in the Late Bronze Age.
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The Bronze Age in Kent. Nature 148, 528–529 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148528c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148528c0