Plant ID help please

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We've recently moved into an overgrown garden and this plant has just appeared, or I've just noticed it.

It looks like it's about to flower from frondy looking tips. Any one know what it is? I think it's probably a perennial but I've never seen this plant before so I don't know for sure.

The leaves are bronzy and the branches have an oddly angular habit, sort of pointing down.

Anyone?

Looks a bit like a wisteria

Thank you so much, Trethew. Now you've said that I can see it does look more like a Wisteria than anything else I can think of. I'll wait and see.

Is that IT? ie is it tiny or sickly? Is it a climber?

It looks a bit like an eleaeganus maculata but a sickly one- they are variagated or dark green. Is it evergreen?

www.gardenersworld.com/plants/elaeagnus-pungens-maculata/

Thank you, QueenoftheNights, sorry the pics aren't very clear, it was really hard to photograph. It's not an eleagnus, too frondy. I'm pretty sure Trethew got it right with wisteria. It's grown a bit in the last few days and is actually beginning to look like a wisteria.

It really is a surprise though, popping up at the end of the season in an overgrown flowerbed but digging around the base I discovered an old trunk which has been cut off, so it was probably an established climber which has re-sprouted. And in the surrounding area are old rusted met posts so I think there was an arbour there at one time.

I'm going to try and dig it up and replant as we plan to build a pergola though unfortunately not in the same place (that would have been handy!). If I have to chop the roots to get it out do you think it will survive transplanting?

If it is a wisteria I wouldn’t recommend that course of action. These days most wisterias are grafted, and what you will be replanting (if you can get it out with roots) is a piece of the rootstock. This is likely to be vigorous and leafy and may not flower for years. Better to start again.