Collections Online
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Advanced Search
Early Bronze Age stone axe hammer
With flat faces and broad rounded butt demarcated (at rather less than half the length of the implement) by pronounced shoulders from the triangular blade. The sides are strongly concave and in side view the implement tapers slightly from the butt to the almost semi-circular edge. The large hour-glass perforation is just to the rear of the shoulders; in front of it on each face there is a tongue-shaped shallow depression. The axe-hammer is slighly assymetrical in plan.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
36.273
Find Information
Site Name: Cae-wern, Trygarn House
Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1855
Notes: found in a drainage ditch in a field known as Cae-wern approximately 200m south-east of the house
Acquisition
Donation, 16/5/1936
Measurements
length / mm:237.0
maximum width / mm:97.0.
width / mm
width / mm:85.0 (of blade)
maximum thickness / mm:95.0
thickness / mm
diameter / mm:52.0*
weight / g:3773.0
Material
coarse ophitic dolerite
Location
In store
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.