Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Looped, with three parallel ribs on each face, the angles of each face also being cast up to form ribs. There is a fracture at the socket end on one of the faces.
Pwnc
Archeoleg a Nwmismateg
Rhif yr Eitem
1897.187/3
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Great Wood, St Fagans
Dyddiad: 1849-1855
Nodiadau: found while quarrying in the wood during construction of the Great Western Railway. The socketed axe under accession number 31.78/108 is also part of this hoard. Savory, in the Bronze Age Collections catalogue (1980), states a collection date c.1855; the OS 10000 map in the department states 1849
Derbyniad
Donation, 1897
Mesuriadau
length / mm:107.5
width / mm:49.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:49.5 x 45.5*
diameter / mm
weight / g:418.3
internal diameter / mm:36.5 x 34.5*
diameter / mm
Deunydd
copper alloy
Lleoliad
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