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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
maximum width
(mm): 51.0 (of blade)
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
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