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Bronze Age bronze chisel
Plain, with a pointed tang without a stop (the slight notches along the sides are perhaps intended for binding for a handle), and an expanded edge.
Bronze chisel, 1400-1275 BCE. Found at Priory Farm Cave, south-west Wales.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
09.18/2.1
Find Information
Site Name: Priory Farm Cave, Monkton
Collection Method: Excavation
Date: 1906-1907
Notes: Also see accession number 34.16 for an Upper Palaeolithic burin from the same excavation.
Acquisition
donation, 1909
Measurements
Length
(mm): 98.0
Width
(mm): 18.0 (of blade)
thickness
(mm): 3.5
Weight
(g): 19.0
Material
Copper alloy
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