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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with three parallel ribs on each face, the edges of which are raised, a moulded mouth, and a sub-rectangular socket. The blade face is damaged.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
26.280/3
Find Information
Site Name: Liveoaks Farm, St Arvans
Date: 1926 / Mar
Notes: the hoard of seven axes was found 400 yards south-west of the farm
Acquisition
Donation, 7/7/1926
Measurements
length / mm:99.0
width / mm:45.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:40.5 x 37.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:263.3
internal diameter / mm:30.5 x 27.0*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
Location
In store
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