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Late Bronze Age bronze sickle
Part of a blade with three narrow ribs which converge towards the point on each face. The fragment is bent and twisted.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
30.130/8
Find Information
Site Name: Cardiff, South Wales
Date: 1928
Notes: Found on the flood plain between the Ely and Taff rivers, near the football ground, in a shallow bed of river sand at a depth of one metre under the turf.
Acquisition
donation, 11/3/1930
Measurements
Length
(mm): 142.0
maximum width
(mm): 47.0
maximum thickness
(mm): 5.0
Weight
(g): 88.8
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T3
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