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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.
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
Weight
(g): 73.5
Width
(mm): 12.0 (of butt)
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B4
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