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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A looped socketed axe, which has a sub-rectangular socket with a double moulding around the mouth. It has parallel sides which expand into a crescentic cutting edge. Decorated with three parallel ribs which hang from the lower, and less substantial, moulding. Loop is large and prominent. The axe still retained the charred stump of a whittled willow haft, wedged into the socket with what appeared to be unburnt strips of wood or bark.
Site Name: The Breidden Hillfort, Criggion
Notes: found standing upright 4 cms below the modern turf line in the interior of the fort, but not in a detectable feature, (Co-ord. B 375504)
