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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
length / mm
width / mm:36.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:18.0 (of socket)
diameter / mm
weight / g:19.7
internal diameter / mm:14.0 (of socket)
diameter / mm
diameter / mm:3.5 (of peg hole)
length / mm:15.5 (of blade)
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T3
Location
In store
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