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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped South Wales type, with sub-rectangular projecting mouth and three converging ribs below the lip.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
47.26/5
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): 92.5
Width
(mm): 47.0 (of blade)
Weight
(g): 311.7
external diameter
(mm): 50.5 x 43.0*
internal diameter
(mm): 34.5 x 29.0*
Material
Copper alloy
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