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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with an oval socket and a weak mouth moulding. There are faint traces of a decoration of four parallel ribs on one of the faces.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
35.676/2
Find Information
Site Name: Coed y Graig, Peniarth-uchaf
Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1886 / March
Notes: found whist digging out rabbits
Acquisition
Donation, 29/11/1935
Measurements
length / mm:100.0
width / mm:50.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:43.0 x 40.5*
diameter / mm
internal diameter / mm:29.0 x 27.5*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
Location
In store
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