Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe

A slender, looped axe with a plain body and a sub-oval socket. Round sectioned with a widely-spaced double moulding between the loop and the mouth. Fractured on the face opposite the loop.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

26.280/1

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:107.0
width / mm:44.0 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:33.5 x 32.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:211.9
internal diameter / mm:23.0 x 21.0*
diameter / mm

Material

copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T

Location

In store
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