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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Bronze Age bronze socketed axe fragment
Dimensions: maximum surviving length 21.0mm; surviving width at mouth 23.5mm; thickness at mouth 5.6-6.8mm; upper face & side wall-thickness 3.3-3.5mm; surviving weight (prior to conservation) 7.2g.
This is a small, rectangular mouth-corner fragment of a bronze socketed axe which cannot now be identified to type. The break surfaces are soil covered and show some erosion, suggesting breakage in antiquity, rather than during recent discovery. The internal and external surfaces have a dark grey to black patina. On the mouth and along the break-edges there are areas of pale green corrosion product.
Site Name: Llanmaes Community, Vale of Glamorgan,
Notes: Please treat precise Ordnance Survey grid reference as CONFIDENTIAL. Find is to be referred to as from Llanmaes Community. Maximum permitted findspot accuracy to be released to the public is to the 4 fig. OS grid reference of SS 98 69.
