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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
One of a Hoard of twenty one bronze tools, weapons and ingot fragments dating to the Ewart Park phase of the Late Bronze Age (1000-800 BC)
This small fragment was found wedged inside the socket of socketed axe 2025.78H/1.
A small fragment of a probable plano-convex ingot of copper, with at least three breaks and with no original side-edges visible. The probable upper surface appears slightly concave while the probable lower surface looks to have a convex shape and tapering within and towards the base of the socket of the axe. The breaks were made in antiquity and are eroded.
The hoard contains 13 axe heads, 1 palstave, 3 spearheads, 1 sword and 2 fragments from copper and leaded bronze ingots of Late Bronze Age (1150-800BC) dates. 1 additional post-medieval copper alloy object was found nearby but was probably mixed in by chance. The hoard was discovered on the south-eastward facing slope of a shallow valley with a view of the Bristol Channel. There was no obvious watercourse flowing nearby.
Site Name: Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan
