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Early Bronze Age bronze axe
With a narrow butt and a splayed blade. Distorted by heat.
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)
maximum thickness
(mm): 5.0
Weight
(g): 33.4
Width
(mm): 12.5 (of butt)
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: C
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