Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with three parallel ribs on each face, the edges of which are raised, and a weakly moulded square socket.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
26.280/5
Find Information
Site Name: Liveoaks Farm, St Arvans
Date: 1926 / Mar
Notes: the hoard of seven axes was found 400 yards south-west of the farm
Acquisition
Donation, 7/7/1926
Measurements
length / mm:119.0
width / mm:57.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:46.5 x 45.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:423.1
internal diameter / mm:34.0 x 33.0*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
Location
In store
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