Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with a rectangular socket, mouth moulding, and a second faint moulding on a level with the top of the loop. Of Breton type. Cast in a different mould to the axe under 43.221/1.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
43.221/2
Find Information
Site Name: Chapel Hill, Tintern
Date: 1924
Notes: Found in the corner of a field close to the Monmouth-Chepstow road approximately 2km from Tintern Abbey.
Measurements
length / mm:129.0
width / mm:33.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:34.5 x 42.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:286.5
internal diameter / mm:25.5 x 28.5*
diameter / mm
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