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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Plain socketed axe similar to South Eastern type axes.(Schmidt and Burgess, 1981, 204-211) It has a flaring, trumpet shaped mouth with an ill-defined moulding. There is a trace of a narrower faint moulding beneath with the loop springing from it. It has a slender, slightly waisted body expanding to a worn, rounded blade. Information taken from Wear (forthcoming). This axe is morphologically similar to examples from the Petters hoard (Needham, 1990) with its deep front-back mouth and slender body but has rounded rather than angular face edges. An axe found at Llansilin, Denbighshire has similar mouldings and slender form (Savory, 1980, no.185).
Site Name: Margam, Neath Port Talbot
Notes: Found on Margam Beach where exposed by marine erosion. The axes were spread over a length of 4 metres but were almost certainly once a hoard.
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