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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
One of a Hoard of twenty one bronze tools, weapons and ingot fragments dating to the Ewart Park phase of the Late Bronze Age (1000-800 BC)
This is a South Wales Type socketed axe, bronze – complete (sword hilt shoulder fragment, No. 16 & probable ingot fragment No. 20 wedged in socket)
A complete bronze ribbed socketed axe of slender form and rectangular cross-section with a slightly expanded blade with a moderately curved cutting edge. Sub-rectangular shaped mouth with a prominent and everted mouth moulding with a high placed loop emerging from the underside. Four-runners. Three longitudinal and parallel ribs extending two thirds down the lengths of each face. Possibly burnt.
The hoard contains 13 axe heads, 1 palstave, 3 spearheads, 1 sword and 2 fragments from copper and leaded bronze ingots of Late Bronze Age (1150-800BC) dates. 1 additional post-medieval copper alloy object was found nearby but was probably mixed in by chance. The hoard was discovered on the slope of a shallow valley, facing south-eastwards. There was no obvious watercourse flowing nearby.
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Site Name: Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan