Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe or chisel
Of long narrow form with well marked central thickening and lightly hammered and bevelled sides.
Bronze axe-chisel, 2100-1850 BCE. Found at Capel Quarries, Gorslas, south-west Wales.
SC2.3
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
29.38
Find Information
Site Name: Capel Quarries, Llanarthne
Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1928 / Sep
Notes: found in a fissure in the limestone
Acquisition
Donation, 25/1/1929
Measurements
length / mm:112.0
width / mm:29.0 (of blade)
maximum thickness / mm:7.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:73.5
width / mm:12.0 (of butt)
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B4
Location
St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Bronze Age Tools
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