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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
With three almost parallel ribs on each face and a projecting cornice at the mouth of the socket. Looped, with a sub-rectangular socket.
Site Name: Great Wood, St Fagans
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
