Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age leaf shaped sword
Type of sword uncertain; Wilburton or Ewart Park. Fragment of leaf-shaped sword blade; lower end and tip. The blade is scored, bent and badly damaged along the edges and it has a flattened lozenge section. The casting is porous and of poor quality.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.78H/143
Find Information
Site Name: The Breidden Hillfort, Criggion
Grid Reference: SJ 292 144
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1969-1976
Notes: found in the packing of a post hole belonging to Iron Age four poster F16 in the interior. It lay 2.50m from sword hilt 81.78H/142, (Co-ord. B 508403)
Measurements
length / mm:127.0
width / mm:36.0 (of blade)
thickness / mm:5.0
weight / g:78.0
Material
copper alloy
Location
Tribal Groupings Emerge
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