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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe

Looped, with a rectangular socket, mouth moulding, and a second faint moulding on a level with the top of the loop. Of Breton type. Cast in a different mould to the axe under 43.221/1.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

43.221/2

Find Information

Site Name: Chapel Hill, Tintern

Date: 1924

Notes: Found in the corner of a field close to the Monmouth-Chepstow road approximately 2km from Tintern Abbey.

Acquisition

Donation, 17/9/1943

Measurements

length / mm:129.0
width / mm:33.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:34.5 x 42.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:286.5
internal diameter / mm:25.5 x 28.5*
diameter / mm

Material

copper alloy

Location

In store

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