Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped South Wales Type axe with three irregular diverging ribs on each face. An incomplete casting, with irregularly shaped mouth with sections unfilled. Casting flashes have not been trimmed and axe is unsharpened.
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Beaufort, Ebbw Valley
Nodiadau: Found during quarrying for rond-metal on the steep slopes which form the eastern side of the Ebbw Valley, about 1500 yds. NW of St. Andrews Church, Beaufort, Mon., under the W of CWM CARNO on O.S 6 in. (1905 Ed.)Mon. XI NW. Part of a larger hoard including a palstave and further socketed axes which remain in private hands.