Bronze Age treasure discovered at hospice site

Six items were discovered in what is believed to be an ancient boundary ditch at the East Coast Hospice site on Sidegate Road, near Beacon Park.

The team from Hertfordshire-based Archaeological Solutions found two quoit-headed pins about 35cm long, two large decorated twisted torques 18cm diameter and two small torques.

The company was asked to carry out an archaeological survey ahead of the submission of a formal planning application for the new hospice serving the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.

The finds are believed to date from the middle Bronze Age, making them about 3,500 years old, and have now been registered as treasure.

The discoveries were made late in the survey after the earlier confirmation of the existence of an Iron Age ring ditch marking the possible burial of an important person close to what will become the entrance to the hospice...