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Found my first hoard today. I was out detecting  with Soft top and Flash and on my way back to the car I got a good signal. I dug it and found 8 bronze age axe heads together.

Bloody hell what a fantastic find,well done that man

A good signal, I bet it nearly blew your head off. :o  How deep were they, you didn't say.

One of them would make my day.  Great find.

Val

wow thats bloody awsome :o

Well, I was always told that the jokes had to be before mid-day. After that the Joker was the fool. ::)

Val

so it is,.ive been conned again lol ;D

Believe me. ITS NO JOKE.
I found them between 17 to 20 inches deep. All packed together and only gave a small signal. When I first got the signal I thought it would be a coin but then as I dug deeper and deeper the signal got bigger.

great find fair play

Very very well done Alan can't think of nicer person to happen too well pleased for you mate

The palstave axe head ( top left in the photo ) could be at least 500 years older than the others - very strange.
Mark Lodwick would be interested in recording these.

Fantastic find al, the best yet, and i can say i was there!

That's an amazing find, top drawer.
Well done  :)

amazing,  it goes to show that its out their to find, well done

Congrats on the find

Heres my PIcture to confirm its true for you doubters
Well done Alan

Clean those suckers up and lets see what they really look like lol

I was going to clean them but I cant find the Brillo pads. ;D

Congratulations on such a great find!! They look fantastic!! I too was lucky enough to stumble across a small Bronze Age hoard as my first hoard! All I can say is report the find, and please, what ever you do, don't clean them, let the museums do that. I sent mine in a far worse dirty state than yours, and I'm certain yours will look stunning once a conservator has looked at them. Cheers, Jon.

A quality find and as mentioned by another poster, unusual to find a palstave mixed in with a predominanently socketed axe hoard. I am not aware of an axe head hoard like that previously, but there must have been a point of transition somewhere in history, so why not.

Looking forward to seeing them minus the mud after the museum have had them.

Great find - congratulations

Neil

Fantastic find, well done, you must be stoked, congrats :)

 very nice find well done 8) 8)

Fantastic find Alan well done mate and I've got to applaud yours and Jon's optimistic view when you say "my FIRST hoard" :D

I sent a photo to Mark Lodwick, Cardiff Museum and this is his reply -

I think that six of the axes are of 'South Wales' or closely related types, the smaller axe may be a type Welby or a Yorkshire type, I'll need to have a better look. The palstave is a Late Type, possibly of Type Isleham. All can be contemporary and are of Ewart Park metalworking tradition dated to c. 950 - 750 BC.

I have arranged to hand them in after Easter. In the meantime I am trying to get through to the Coroners office to report it.

Great heads, fantastic find, well done

Alan, did Mark tell you to contact the coroner?  Letting Mark know constitutes a recording so you are covered under the treasure act. Mark should contact the Coroner when he gets the hoard as he has the forms and detailed info.

Mark said he would contact coroner but asked me to do it as well.
All now done so now going to sit back and wait until I get the appointment with Mark to hand them in.
He is pretty sure that they will be declared treasure.
I would rather keep them than have the reward but I wont get the choice.

Wat a lovely find well done  ;D ;D

at least you can keep them for a few days to admire mate

Well done you must still be on cloud nine

Well done on your first fantastic find of a life time :o :o ;D

Cracking find, well done! I'd be tempted to clean the soil out of the socketed end of the axes as they are quite often found with pieces of gold pushed inside.
John.

Oh yes. I am very tempted but think I will leave it for the experts. I have been told not to clean anything. And i think it will devalue it if I do.

And next time, dont tell everyone about it on April 1st!

Fantastic find! well done. :)

 outstanding find.welldone indeed.again top find mate, ;D

Cracking finds well done that man  ;)