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Early Bronze Age bronze flanged axe
With cast flanges, widely splayed blade and flat butt. There is a cross-bar, a semi-circular mouilding, which links the lower ends of the flanges, and a diagonal tooling on the flanges. Recent cleaning has given the implement a polished golden surface.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
41.109/5
Find Information
Site Name: Gwynedd (formerly Caernarfonshire), North Wales
Notes: Catalogue entry says; 'found near Caernarfon'. (exact site not known)
Acquisition
donation, 11/6/1941
Measurements
Length
(mm): 137.0
Width
(mm): 83.5 (of blade)
maximum thickness
(mm): 13.5
Weight
(g): 416.2
Width
(mm): 25.5 (of butt)
maximum width
(mm): 24.0 (of flange)
Height
(mm): 4.0 (of bar stop)
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: C
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