Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Early Bronze Age bronze chisel

Long, narrow chisel with widely-splayed blade.

LI7.3c

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

42.395.4/2

Find Information

Site Name: Ty'n-Pwll, Llanddyfan

Notes: Found inside the cinerary urn 42.395.4/12 which had been inserted over a secondary cremation burial in the larger of the round barrows at Ty'n-Pwll.

Acquisition

Bequest, 11/12/1942

Measurements

length / mm:109.0
maximum width / mm:22.0 (of blade)
width / mm
weight / g:19.1
maximum thickness / mm:3.0
thickness / mm
width / mm:7.0 (at butt end)

Material

copper alloy
Northover's composition group: C

Location

St Fagans Life Is gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Death

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