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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Class 5Da, Type Balbirnie / Dirryniggan affinities. Largely complete bronze flanged axe with cast flanges. The sides of the axe are straight and very slightly divergent towads the blade end and the sides curve out suddenly to a widely expanded blade with crecentic cutting adge. The butt end is damged making it impossible to tell if it was straight-ended or arched. On one face, just below the stopridge, the faint traces of decorative hammer marks can be observed forming three or four linear zones parallel with the stopridge. Hammer marks are also evidnet along the sides of the axe, though forming no distict faceting or pattern.
Site Name: Llanover, Monmouthshire
Notes: Discovered while metal detecting in a field used as wetland and rough pasture. The artefacts were found at a depth of 46cm beneath the surface, two 8-10cm apart from each other and the third being 3-4m away. The hoard was buried in a boggy pond area and may have been dispersed in antiquity.
