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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.
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
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