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Middle Bronze Age bronze unlooped palstave
With shield-pattern on the blade, perhaps from the same mould as 18.77/1 but a poorer casting. There are hammer marks visible on the blade surfaces.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
18.77/2
Find Information
Site Name: Acton Park Estate, Wrexham
Date: 1874
Notes: Found "a little before 1874" (RCAM Denbighshire, No.31) in the garden of a house called Acton Nursery.
Acquisition
donation, 3/6/1918
Measurements
Length
(mm): 180.0
Width
(mm): 72.5 (of blade)
Weight
(g): 590.1
Material
Copper alloy
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