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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped South Wales type, with sub-rectangular mouth and three converging ribs below the lip. Projecting cornice at socket mouth.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
47.26/4
Find Information
Site Name: Penwyllt, Ystradgynlais
Date: 1886
Notes: Found just below ground surface by the side of a large boulder on the mountain above Penwyllt in the general area of the coordinates stated.
Acquisition
bequest, 21/1/1947
Measurements
Length
(mm): 92.0
Width
(mm): 49.0 (of blade)
Weight
(g): 24.7
external diameter
(mm): 50.0 x 38.0*
internal diameter
(mm): 37.5 x 28.5*
Material
Copper alloy
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