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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Decorated with three vertical, slightly diverging ribs on each face. Looped, with a sub-oval socket and a projecting cornice at the mouth.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
1897.187/1
Find Information
Site Name: Great Wood, St Fagans
Date: 1849-1855
Notes: found while quarrying in the wood during construction of the Great Western Railway. The socketed axe under accession number 31.78/108 is also part of this hoard. Savory, in the Bronze Age Collections catalogue (1980), states a collection date c.1855; the OS 10000 map in the department states 1849
Acquisition
Donation, 1897
Measurements
length / mm:83.5
width / mm:43.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:42.0 x 37.5*
diameter / mm
weight / g:240.1
internal diameter / mm:27.0 x 24.0*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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