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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Class 5Da, Type Arreton. Largely complete bronze flanged axe with cast flanges. The sides of the axe are straight and near-parallel expanding to a crescentic cutting edge. 51mm from the butt end is a median bevel on both faces and the flanged rise 2mm above the septum on both sides. THe sides are hammer-faceted with cable hammer decoration evident. The overall patination is green-brown in colour, while the blade edge butt-end and flanges have a lighter blue-green colouration.
Site Name: Llanover, Monmouthshire
Notes: Discovered while metal detecting in a field used as wetland and rough pasture. The artefacts were found at a depth of 46cm beneath the surface, two 8-10cm apart from each other and the third being 3-4m away. The hoard was buried in a boggy pond area and may have been dispersed in antiquity.
