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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*
internal diameter
(mm): 29.0 x 27.5*
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T
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