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Middle Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with narrow elongated rectangular socket expanding slightly towards the blade, and with greatly expanded convex-surfaced collar.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
38.342/1
Find Information
Site Name: Cae-glâs Farm, Trawsfynydd
Collection Method: Surface find
Notes: Found whilst cutting peat 60m NNE of the farm.
Acquisition
donation, 2/6/1938
Measurements
Length
(mm): 124.0
external diameter
(mm): 24.0 x 27.0 (socket)
Width
(mm): 24.5 (of blade)
Weight
(g): 120.7
internal diameter
(mm): 18.5 x 14.0 (socket)
Material
Copper alloy
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