Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with a rectangular socket, prolonged as a 'jet' above the mouth moulding and with a second faint moulding on two sides of the socket on a level with the top of the loop. Of Breton type. Cast in a different mould to the axe under 43.221/2.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
43.221/1
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.
Acquisition
Donation, 17/9/1943
Measurements
length / mm:137.0
width / mm:32.0 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:27.0 x 31.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:286.5
internal diameter / mm:21.0 x 27.0*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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