Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Middle Bronze Age bronze palstave

Plain, narrow blade with expanded cutting edge and butt broken off. There are hammer marks clearly visible on the blade surfaces.

Bronze palstave, 1400-1275 BCE. Found at Priory Farm Cave, south-west Wales.

SC2.3

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

09.18/1.1

Find Information

Site Name: Priory Farm Cave, Monkton

Grid Reference: SM 90 SE
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1906-1907

Notes: Also see accession number 34.16 for an Upper Palaeolithic burin from the same excavation.

Acquisition

Donation, 1909

Measurements

maximum length / mm:67.0 (of fragment)
length / mm
width / mm:60.0 (of blade)
thickness / mm:17.0
weight / g:180.7

Material

copper alloy

Location

St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Bronze Age Tools

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