Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Bronze Age bronze awl

Bronze awl (?), rectangular in section at the centre, taper to a point at one end where it is broken, and to a slightly narrowed chisel edge at the other. It has not been hammered so is unlikely to have been a metal workers tool. An almost exact parallel can be found form the Heathery Burn Cave deposti, Co. Durham (Inventaria Arcaheologica GB 55)

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

81.78H/155

Find Information

Site Name: The Breidden Hillfort, Criggion

Grid Reference: SJ 292 144
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1968-1976

Notes: Excavated by the Clwyd-Powys Arch. Trust. Context B0415 - Bronze Age occupation soil behind rampart.

Measurements

weight / g:3.3
length / mm:47
width / mm:4.5 (centre)
thickness / mm:4 (centre)

Material

copper alloy

Techniques

cast

Location

In store
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