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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with three parallel ribs on each face, the edges of which are raised, and a weakly moulded square socket.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
26.280/5
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): 119.0
Width
(mm): 57.5 (of blade)
external diameter
(mm): 46.5 x 45.0*
Weight
(g): 423.1
internal diameter
(mm): 34.0 x 33.0*
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
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