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Late Bronze Age socketed chisel
Of a similar type to chisels 30.130/3-5, but with a small blade and a simple narrow collar around the mouth of the socket.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
30.130/6
Find Information
Site Name: Cardiff, South Wales
Date: 1928
Notes: Found on the flood plain between the Ely and Taff rivers, near the football ground, in a shallow bed of river sand at a depth of one metre under the turf.
Acquisition
donation, 11/3/1930
Measurements
maximum length
(mm): 38.5
Width
(mm): 36.5 (of blade)
external diameter
(mm): 18.0 (of socket)
Weight
(g): 19.7
internal diameter
(mm): 14.0 (of socket)
diameter
(mm): 3.5 (of peg hole)
Length
(mm): 15.5 (of blade)
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T3
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