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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
With V-shaped central mid-rib below the stop and two broken loops. Heavily corroded and pitted, of 'transitional' type, with a narrow blade. Parts of the butt and the angles of the blade are also damaged. The floors of the stop slope inwards slightly towards a large casting flaw in the form of a cavity which penetrates the septum. With a greenish-brown patina.
Site Name: Central Wales, Wales
Notes: both 66.511 items found in a cellar in Aberystwyth, apparently having belonged to the father of the anonymous vendor, who died about 1950, and is thought to have acquired them from a farmer in central Wales who had found them, apparently in association, while burying dead livestock
