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Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe
With thin, rounded butt, splayed blade and marked transverse ridge at the middle. The whole of both surfaces is covered with short, longitudinal tool-marks ("rain pattern"), now half hidden by the dark green patina.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
55.427
Find Information
Site Name: Fforest Fawr Farm, Ystradowen
Collection Method: surface find
Notes: ploughed up near the northern edge of Coed y Tranches approximately 250 yards east of the road from Llanharry to Cowbridge
Acquisition
Donation, 27/9/1955
Measurements
length / mm:162
width / mm:82
thickness / mm:12
weight / g:421.8
Material
bronze
Northover's composition group: B1*
Location
In store
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