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Early Bronze Age bronze flanged axe
Class 5Da, Type Arreton. Largely complete flanged axe with cast flanges. The sides are straight and widely expand to a crescentic blade edge. 47.5mm from the butt-end is a median bevel across both faces and the flanges rise 2mm above the septum on both sides. The sides are hammer faceted into three facets, on one side faint cable hammer decoration can still be observed within the middle facet.
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Site Name: Llanover, Monmouthshire
Notes: Discovered while metal detecting in a field used as wetland and rough pasture. The artefacts were found at a depth of 46cm beneath the surface, two 8-10cm apart from each other and the third being 3-4m away. The hoard was buried in a boggy pond area and may have been dispersed in antiquity.