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Late Bronze Age bronze palstave
Bronze Age bronze palstave fragment
Dimensions: surviving length 41.2mm; width across upper break edge 23.0mm; width across lower break edge 26.4mm; maximum thickness 16.5mm; surviving weight (prior to conservation) 75.4g.
This is an upper blade fragment of a bronze palstave, as indicated by the lack of flanges and the slightly divergent sides. The fragment has a rectangular cross-section. Casting seams are visible down both sides in short sections, present only where the original surface still survives. The break edges are well-eroded and appear within the patinated surface, suggesting damage caused in antiquity.
Light yellow-brown sub-surfaces are visible across the surface of the axe. Small patches of original surface survive which have a brown patina.
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Site Name: Coychurch Higher Community, Bridgend,
Notes: Please treat the Ordnance Survey grid reference to the precise findspot as CONFIDENTIAL. The find is to be referred to as from Coychurch Higher Community. The maximum permitted findspot accuracy to be released to the public is to the 4 figure OS grid reference of SS 96 86. An archaeological findspot investigation was undertaken by Amgueddfa Cymru and PAS Cymru staff on 30th August - 2nd September 2022. During this fieldwork, a fragmentary bronze spearhead of Group 11 (Davis 2015) was discovered in situ. This was carefully lifted in soil block, cleaned and recorded in the conservation laboratory at Amgueddfa Cymru. As the highly fragile and fragmentary artefact could not be conserved of cared for, long-term, it was discarded and the complete salvaged record of the artefact was retained.