Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age socketed sickle
With a single broad flat mid-rib springing from the head of the rectangular-sectioned socket running along the curved blade. The socket has two pairs of large rivet-holes.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
30.130/7
Find Information
Site Name: Cardiff, South Wales
Date: 1928
Notes: Found on the flood plain between the Ely and Taff rivers, near the football ground, in a shallow bed of river sand at a depth of one metre under the turf.
Acquisition
Donation, 11/3/1930
Measurements
length / mm:141.0 (of blade)
maximum width / mm:33.5 (of blade)
width / mm
thickness / mm:4.0 -6.0 (of blade)
weight / g:93.5
external diameter / mm:27.5 x 19.5*
diameter / mm
internal diameter / mm:23.5 x 16.0*
diameter / mm
diameter / mm:6.5 (of peg holes)
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T3
Location
In store
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