Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Early Bronze Age bronze dagger
Of ogival type, with double channel along the cutting edge outlining decoration of parallel, longitudinal intermittent lines made with a tracer. There are three rivet holes, two of which still contain rivets. One of the rivet holes is torn. The dagger also features the imprint of a wooden or bone handle with concave base in which a central semi-circular notch is still visible.
LI7.3c
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
42.395.4/1
Find Information
Site Name: Ty'n-Pwll, Llanddyfan
Notes: Found inside the cinerary urn 42.395.4/12 which had been inserted over a secondary cremation burial in the larger of the round barrows at Ty'n-Pwll.
Acquisition
Bequest, 11/12/1942
Measurements
length / mm:98.0
width / mm:39.5 (at hilt end)
thickness / mm:1.5 (of blade)
weight / g:22.8
diameter / mm:2.5 (of rivet)
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: C
Location
St Fagans Life Is gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Death
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