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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with three diverging ribs on each face, each with terminal bosses and attached, near the mouth of the socket, to a slight moulding on a level with the base of the loop.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
30.130/1
Find Information
Site Name: Cardiff, South Wales
Date: 1928
Notes: Found on the flood plain between the Ely and Taff rivers, near the football ground, in a shallow bed of river sand at a depth of one metre under the turf.
Acquisition
Donation, 11/3/1930
Measurements
length / mm:126.5
width / mm:60.0 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:43.5 x 42.5*
diameter / mm
weight / g:382.1
internal diameter / mm:31.0 x 42.5*
diameter / mm
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T3
Location
In store
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