Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Middle Bronze Age bronze chisel
An unusually thin and light implement in its condition as a casting. With an expanded blade narrowing rapidly to a narrow tang with slightly convex sides flanged along their middle part; the tang ends in a thin, expanded butt. The chisel is evidently unfinished, the casting seams being untrimmed and the edge untouched and blunt as from the mould. The form is suggested by the loopless palstave. A portion of the head is missing.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
18.77/7
Find Information
Site Name: Acton Park Estate, Wrexham
Date: 1874
Notes: Found "a little before 1874" (RCAM Denbighshire, No.31) in the garden of a house called Acton Nursery.
Acquisition
Donation, 3/6/1918
Measurements
length / mm:151.0
width / mm:63.5 (of blade)
width / mm:25.0 (non blade end)
weight / g:100.6
width / mm:15.5 (of shaft)
Material
copper alloy
Techniques
cast
Location
In store
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