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Late Bronze Age socketed chisel
Of a similar type to chisel 30.130/3, but complete, and with a pair of rivet-holes inside the socket near the mouth.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
30.130/4
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): 61.0
Width
(mm): 53.5 (of blade)
thickness
(mm): 0.5 - 4.0 (of blade)
Weight
(g): 27.5
external diameter
(mm): 17.5 (of socket)
Length
(mm): 32.0 (of blade)
internal diameter
(mm): 15.0 (of socket)
diameter
(mm): 3.0 (of peg hole)
Material
Northover's composition group: T3
Copper alloy
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