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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe

With three almost parallel ribs on each face and a projecting cornice at the mouth of the socket. Looped, with a sub-rectangular socket.

Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
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Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

1897.187/2

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:95.0
width / mm:52.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:46.0 x 40.5*
diameter / mm
weight / g:287.2
internal diameter / mm:30.5 x 28.0*
diameter / mm

Material

copper alloy

Location

In store

Categories

hoard Unassigned Penard South Welsh record verified by A. Gwilt
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