While the past participle “laden” is not archaic, the present form is!

• 07.126 and he would lade them with food
• 10.045 laden with rowers,
• 11.003 each leading another pony heavily laden beside him;
• 14.016 into laden boats
• 19.004 O! Whither so laden,

“lade, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 20 May 2015.