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Early Bronze Age bronze axe
With a narrow butt and a splayed blade. Distorted by heat.
LI7.3c
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
42.395.4/5
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:75.5*
(): maximum width / mm:25.5 (of blade)
(): width / mm
(): maximum thickness / mm:5.0
(): thickness / mm
(): weight / g:33.4
(): width / mm:12.5 (of butt)
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: C
Location
St Fagans Life Is gallery : Prehistoric and Roman Death
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