Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Early Bronze Age bronze flanged axe
With a widely splayed assymetrical blade, rounded butt, cast flanges with diagonal fluting and transverse furrowing between the flanges. The blade has a pitted surface and appears to have been reshaped after casting. Dark brown patination.
Pwnc
Archeoleg a Nwmismateg
Rhif yr Eitem
44.172/1
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Menai Bridge, Anglesey
Dyddiad: 1875
Nodiadau: part of a hoard of eight flanged axes found near the junction of the Holyhead and Beaumaris roads at Menai Bridge. The other axes from the hoard are in the British Museum and Bangor Museum and Art Gallery.
Mesuriadau
length / mm:157.0
maximum width / mm:19.0 (of flange)
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:11.0
thickness / mm
weight / g:434.6
width / mm:91.5 (of blade)
width / mm:24.0 (of butt)
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