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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Mouth, upper face and side fragment of a South Wales Type ribbed socketed axe.The fragment has been forcibly inserted into the mouth of 2016.35H/1.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
2015.35H/2
Find Information
Site Name: Llancarfan, Vale of Glamorgan
Collection Method: metal detector
Date: 2013
Notes: The associated artefacts were retrieved from a field under pasture. The were found at a depth of approximateley 50cm beneath the surface within a clay soil. The blade end was alighed to the south and the axe was deposited on its side rather than flat.
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width / mm
weight / g:420.8 combined
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