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Early Bronze Age stone battle axe
With rounded butt, hour-glass perforation to the rear of the centre, and a blade slightly wider than the butt. The form is slightly irregular in plan owing to uneven working when the implement was first roughed out.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
11.138
Find Information
Site Name: Hebron, Llanglydwen
Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1911 / Sept
Notes: found outside the gate of a field north-east of Hebron Independent Chapel
Acquisition
Purchase, 19/12/1911
Measurements
(): length / mm:145.5
(): maximum width / mm:53.0
(): width / mm
(): maximum thickness / mm:41.5
(): thickness / mm
(): diameter / mm:30.0*
(): weight / g:464.4
Material
ophitic olivine dolerite
Location
In store
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