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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with a pair of slightly diverging ribs on each face, the edges of which are raised, and a rectangular moulded socket. The blade is damaged.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
26.280/4
Find Information
Site Name: Liveoaks Farm, St Arvans
Date: 1926 / Mar
Notes: the hoard of seven axes was found 400 yards south-west of the farm
Acquisition
Donation, 7/7/1926
Measurements
length / mm:91.0
external diameter / mm:39.5 x 35.5*
diameter / mm
internal diameter / mm:28.5 x 23.0*
diameter / mm
weight / g:236.9
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
Location
In store
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