Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Middle Bronze Age bronze socketed axe

Early slender type, looped, with a plain narrow blade and narrow collar around the mouth of the hexagonal socket. Slight expansion of the blade towards the cutting edge, each face having a central ridge.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

15.277/1

Find Information

Site Name: Langrove, Penard

Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1827

Notes: Found by a quarryman in a hole in the ground covered by a flat stone.

Acquisition

Donation, 16/11/1915

Measurements

length / mm:109.0
width / mm:30.5 (of blade)
weight / g:93.7
length / mm:20.0*
width / mm:16.0*
length / mm:25.0**
width / mm:21.0**

Material

copper alloy

Location

In store
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