Record ID: LVPL-F314E0
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost intact cast bronze / copper alloy slender and faceted socketed axe of Late Bronze Age date (1000 - 800 BC). The axe is almost complete (95%), with only a few chips missing from the edge of the blade and the socket. The original edge of the blade is not present so it is hard to determine how the blade extended outwards. The axe is sub rectangular in plan, with the edge of the cutting edge appears to expand / flare outwards to form an convex cutting edge. The expanded blade has a curved convex (crescent shaped) cutting edge which is relatively poorly preserved. The socke…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flintshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-F33C38
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast differentially corroded hook-shaped dense base-metal object, of probable Bronze Age dating. The artefact is semi-circular in plan, and oval in cross section. It has a rectangular hollow opening, which still contains some soil. The top then flattens out before narrowing and curving to a point. In form and size it resembles the tusk of a pig or wild boar. Original, but longitudinally cracking surfaces survive on the interior concave curved side however original surfaces are almost entirely missing on the exterior convex shaped side. Microscope examination of the e…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
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