Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Late Bronze Age bronze sword

With a hollow-ground edge; presumed to have been part of a leaf-shaped sword, (difficult to be certain).

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

31.62/41 a

Find Information

Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield

Date: 1862

Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.

Measurements

maximum length / mm:41.8
length / mm
maximum width / mm:30.1
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:7.4
thickness / mm
weight / g:38

Material

copper alloy

Location

In store
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