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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with three parallel ribs on each face, the angles of each face also being cast up to form ribs. There is a fracture at the socket end on one of the faces.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
1897.187/3
Find Information
Site Name: Great Wood, St Fagans
Date: 1849-1855
Notes: found while quarrying in the wood during construction of the Great Western Railway. The socketed axe under accession number 31.78/108 is also part of this hoard. Savory, in the Bronze Age Collections catalogue (1980), states a collection date c.1855; the OS 10000 map in the department states 1849
Acquisition
Donation, 1897
Measurements
length / mm:107.5
width / mm:49.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:49.5 x 45.5*
diameter / mm
weight / g:418.3
internal diameter / mm:36.5 x 34.5*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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