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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with projecting cornice at the mouth and three diverging ribs on each face. The axe has four projecting cast flashes, which have not been trimmed, suggesting that the axe was never used.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
36.631/1
Find Information
Site Name: Fairwater Cross Roads, Llandaff
Notes: found while digging a pipe-line 150m south of the crossroads
Acquisition
Purchase, 4/11/1936
Measurements
length / mm:118.0
width / mm:57.5 (of blade)
length / mm:52.5*
width / mm:48.0*
length / mm:35.0**
width / mm:31.0**
weight / g:393.3
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
Location
In store
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