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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with a rectangular socket, prolonged as a 'jet' above the mouth moulding and with a second faint moulding on two sides of the socket on a level with the top of the loop. Of Breton type. Cast in a different mould to the axe under 43.221/2.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
43.221/1
Find Information
Site Name: Chapel Hill, Tintern
Date: 1924
Notes: Found in the corner of a field close to the Monmouth-Chepstow road approximately 2km from Tintern Abbey.
Acquisition
donation, 17/9/1943
Measurements
Length
(mm): 137.0
Width
(mm): 32.0 (of blade)
external diameter
(mm): 27.0 x 31.0*
Weight
(g): 286.5
internal diameter
(mm): 21.0 x 27.0*
Material
Copper alloy
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