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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with plain sides and slight mouldings around the sub-rectangular socket. The blade looks unused, with concave hammer shaping scars on blade surfaces.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/13
Find Information
Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield
Date: 1862
Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.
Measurements
maximum length / mm:84.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:51.0 (of blade)
width / mm
thickness / mm:37.0 (external)*
weight / g:232.1
width / mm:40.0 (external)*
thickness / mm:28.0 (internal)*
width / mm:30.5 (internal)*
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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