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Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe or chisel

Of long narrow form with well marked central thickening and lightly hammered and bevelled sides.

Bronze axe-chisel, 2100-1850 BCE. Found at Capel Quarries, Gorslas, south-west Wales.

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Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe or chisel
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Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

29.38

Find Information

Site Name: Capel Quarries, Llanarthne

Collection Method: surface find
Date: 1928 / Sep

Notes: found in a fissure in the limestone

Acquisition

Donation, 25/1/1929

Measurements

length / mm:112.0
width / mm:29.0 (of blade)
maximum thickness / mm:7.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:73.5
width / mm:12.0 (of butt)

Material

copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B4

Location

St Fagans Gweithdy gallery : Bronze Age Tools

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