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Middle Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Early slender type, looped, with a plain narrow blade and narrow collar around the mouth of the hexagonal socket. Slight expansion of the blade towards the cutting edge, each face having a central ridge.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
15.277/1
Find Information
Site Name: Langrove, Penard
Collection Method: Surface find
Date: 1827
Notes: Found by a quarryman in a hole in the ground covered by a flat stone.
Acquisition
donation, 16/11/1915
Measurements
Length
(mm): 109.0
Width
(mm): 30.5 (of blade)
Weight
(g): 93.7
Length
(mm): 20.0*
Width
(mm): 16.0*
Length
(mm): 25.0**
Width
(mm): 21.0**
Material
Copper alloy
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