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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
maximum thickness
(mm): 41.5
diameter
(mm): 30.0*
Weight
(g): 464.4
Material
Ophitic olivine dolerite
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