Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Late Bronze Age bronze socketed axe
Decorated with three vertical, slightly diverging ribs on each face. Looped, with a sub-oval socket and a projecting cornice at the mouth.
Pwnc
Archeoleg a Nwmismateg
Rhif yr Eitem
1897.187/1
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:83.5
width / mm:43.5 (of blade)
external diameter / mm:42.0 x 37.5*
diameter / mm
weight / g:240.1
internal diameter / mm:27.0 x 24.0*
diameter / mm
Deunydd
copper alloy
Lleoliad
In store
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