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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
One of a Hoard of twenty one bronze tools, weapons and ingot fragments dating to the Ewart Park phase of the Late Bronze Age (1000-800 BC)
This is a Sword Hilt possibly Ewart Park Type, a shoulder fragment wedged inside the socket of axe 2025.78H/1
A hilt shoulder fragment of a bronze sword, broken across the shoulder and across the upper blade with one shoulder edge also broken and missing. From the visible break edge, the surviving shoulder is straight, giving a flared form and angled intersection with the ricasso, largely missing. A small circular shaped rivet hole (approx. 4.0mm diameter) is visible on the lower shoulder, with a possible second broken rivet hole present across the upper break.
The hoard contains 13 axe heads, 1 palstave, 3 spearheads, 1 sword and 2 fragments from copper and leaded bronze ingots of Late Bronze Age (1150-800BC) dates. 1 additional post-medieval copper alloy object was found nearby but was probably mixed in by chance. The hoard was discovered on the south-eastward facing slope of a shallow valley with a view of the Bristol Channel. There was no obvious watercourse flowing nearby.
Site Name: Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan
