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Record ID: NMGW3326
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bridgend
Workflow stage: Published
Early Bronze Age Flat Axe - probably Class 3. Dimensions: blade width 57mm, surviving length 86mm, maximum thickness 9.5mm, weight 211.3 grams. This axe has slightly concave sides, which diverge gently towards an expanded blade end. The butt of the axe has been broken off in antiquity. There is some evidence that the axe was deliberately damaged; the profile has been slightly bent at the butt end, implying considerable force, and there are linear marks on both butt end surfaces aligned at right angles to the axis of the blade. These would appear to be deliberate blows from a na…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: NMGW3340
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
This is a small unlooped palstave of slender form without any form of decoration or ribbing on the upper blade surfaces. Well-defined ledge stops, characteristic of palstaves, are present at mid point along the length of the artefact. Pronounced and asymmetric cast flanges rise at the point of the stops and continue to the butt end. Near to the stop, two notches in the flange profile suggest differential wearing in antiquity, possibly caused by a haft binding. On one side of the axe, one flange is markedly higher than the other, making the palstave sit on an angle when placed upside d…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-3FF0B8
Object type: AXE HAMMER
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Large complete but unfinished Early Bronze Age (c. 2500 ? 1450 BC) axe hammer. The implement has been made on a medium-grained carboniferous sandstone (a band of similar material can be found to the north of the findspot, stretching from St. Brides Bay to Saundersfoot). The axe hammer is large and heavy and has been roughly shaped giving the implement a somewhat irregular appearance as is usual with this implement type. The sides are gently convex in profile, establishing the artefact as a Roe?s (1979) Class I. The upper and lower faces may also be judged convex making the axe hammer d…
Created on: Tuesday 15th April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMGW-8FCD95
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Published
Blade end fragment from a slender Late bronze Age socketed axe. The axe has broken near the bottom of the socket, with one face surviving higher than the other. The blade edge has been lost but was slightly expanded. The remnants of casting flashes are visible along the sides and have been neatly finished. There is a suggestion of sharpening striations running along the blade edge. The more complete face possibly displays the bottom of a rib on its higher side.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-FD0833
Object type: PALSTAVE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Rhondda Cynon Taf
Workflow stage: Published
Heavily eroded unlooped palstave with a decorative mid rib on each face, there is the suggestion of an additional shield-pattern, although there is not enough of the original surface surviving to be certain. One face appears to exhibit a shield-shaped depression on the blade below the stop-ridge. It is now difficult to determine the original width of the blade edge, height of the stop ridge and flanges or length of the butt. However, it is unlikely the flanges rose much above the height of the stop, suggesting it was a low-flanged form, and the surviving blade seems to have been broad…
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2003
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-CA3104
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy leaf-shaped blade (length 63mm, width 19mm, thickness 2mm, weight 7.9g). The edges are slightly bevelled and the blade has a very slight but relatively wide midrib. One end of the blade apparently tapers into a tang which is now largely missing. The blade is in poor condition, its tip is bent and its edges are badly damaged and notched. This damage makes it difficult to evaluate whether the apparent tang is a genuine feature or simply a fortuitous break. The blade may possibly be an example of a rare type of Early to Middle Bronze Age knife known as a Class I or …
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 24th March 2018
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Record ID: NMGW-CBE825
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy (probably bronze) socketed axe with a splayed and curved blade. The fragment was apparently broken and distorted in antiquity. Microscopic examination suggests the fragment is encrusted wuth ferrous and manganese oxide corrosion products presumably derived from the burial environment. Original blade width c.51mm, surviving height of fragment 40.5mm, maximum surviving thickness 13.5mm, weight 66.2g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 5th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-CD7412
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Caerphilly
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy low-flanged axe. This bronze Early Bronze Age flanged axe has a long slender body with near parallel sides, which suddenly expand widely, to produce a crescentic shaped blade and asymmetric cutting edge. The butt end of the axe has been slightly damaged in antiquity and therefore the original shape is not apparent. Part way down the body of the axe is a median bevel, whilst the sides of the axe are rounded. Surface pitting on these sides precludes the possibility of knowing whether or not they were once decorated. Both faces of the axe were once decorated, although mos…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-743CA6
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy flat axe which thickens towards the middle, with a thin, narrow and originally probably slightly rounded butt and a splayed blade. The edges of both the butt and the blade are damaged, and one face in particular is heavily corroded. Two distinct casting flaws are visible on the relatively uncorroded face of the axe. The sides of the blade more or less evenly curve outwards towards the cutting edge from a point situated slightly over one third of the length of the axe from the butt. The axe is undecorated. Longitudinal stritations visible on the relatively uncorro…
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-DDE311
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowhead, tip missing. All of the damage on the arrowhead is ancient. Length 39.2mm, width 23.2mm, thickness 4.9mm, weight 3.5 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-DF6846
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This bronze casting jet represents the by-product of the manufacture of a socketed axe. The jet is of a roughly circular form and displays all four runners. The four runners together with its geographic location strongly hint at the jet being removed from an axe of type Storgursey or 'South Wales Type'. The patina on the casting jet varies from a brown to light green and the jet now displays a sheen due to polish or lacquer applied by the finder. The external diameter of the jet is 39.2mm - 45.3mm, with an internal diameter of 16.4mm - 19.3mm. The jet has a maximum thickness of 15…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 7th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-EF8FC1
Object type: FLANGED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age, Bronze cast-flanged axe whose sides are straight and near parallel, curving outwards markedly near the blade, giving a splayed blade. The artefact has a flat shaped butt end, which tapers in section. Unusually, the butt end of the axe is pierced by a circular hole (6mm in diameter). This was made with care in antiquity, possibly by drilling into the metal with a circular implement from each side of the artefact, the hole breaking through the middle (as suggested by its slightly hourglass shaped profile). The hole is slightly offset from the centre of the butt, and…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-440A24
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
This hoard contains 19 metalwork fragments, representing 15 artefacts, 2 casting jets and 1 ingot or cake fragment. It comprises:- 9 socketed axes: 6 South Wales type socketed axes 1 ribbed socketed axe 1 South-eastern type (Class A) plain socketed axe 1 Plain slender socketed axe Tools: 1 riveted sickle 1 Thorndon type socketed knife Weapons: 1 Carp's Tongue sword blade 1 leaf shaped sword blade 1 Plain Pegged spearhead with long socket and kite shaped blade (2 fragments) Fittings and ornaments: 1 domed and decorated plate Metalworking debris: 2 single runner casting jets 1 ingot / cake
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-4634E0
Object type: FLAT AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Bronze Age bronze flat axe of uncertain type, possibly of Type Dunnottar and of Metalwork Assemblage III, corresponding to Needham's (1996) Period 2, c. 2,300 - 2,050 BC. The axe has an overall length of 106.95mm and weighs 176.7g. The butt has suffered some damage, but is narrow and short with a surviving width of 16mm and would have been rounded or possibly even pointed. The sides are straight and diverge gradually to the unexpanded blade. The sides are rounded across their thickness, giving the axe an oval section. The blade has a width of 59.04mm and has a shallow blade edge…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-E97AE5
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Published
Late Bronze Age socketed axe of South Wales (or Stogursey) Type and dating to the Ewart Park phase of the Late Bronze Age, corresponding with Needham's (1996) Period 7 and dated to c. 950 - 750BC The axe-head is incomplete, missing the mouth on one face, with the face missing a portion. The axe is comparatively small with an overall length of 59.50mm and a weight of 62.4g. The incomplete mouth would have been sub-rectangular (36.32mm x 25.3mm). The remnants of the three casting stubs are evident on the three remaining sides of the mouth, demonstrating the axe was produced using four-r…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-7C1291
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Newport
Workflow stage: Published
Old Kemeys Hoard 950-750 BC, includes 5 complete bronze South Wales Type socketed axes, 3 bronze South Wales Variant Type socketed axes 2 complete 1 fragment and 1 complete bronze Gillespie type faceted axe.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-7C6BF2
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Windmill Farm Hoard 950-750 BC found in 1998, 1 bronze South Wales Type Socketed Axe and 1 socketed axe.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-7CFB43
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Brigam Farm Hoard 950-750BC, One complete casting jet, two incomplete South Wales type socketed axes, one incomplete plain socketed axe, 2 ribbed sockecketed axe fragments, one intermediate socketed axe fragment, one sword fragment and 2 blade fragments.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-7D3137
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
St Nicholas Hoard 950-750BC, five complete South Wales Type Socketed Axes, one complete plain slender axe, one complete Gouge, one complete lanceolate spearhead, one complete eliptical spearhead, one complete casting jet for a South Wales Type socketed Axe, one complete casting jet. Two incomplete South Wales Type Socketed Axe, one incomplete South Wale Variant Socketed Axe, one incomplete Southern English ribbed socketed axe, one incomplete undiagnostic axe, one incomplete Thorndon knife, three incomplete Ewart Swords, one incomplete bracelet, one incomplete Jet for South Wales axe. …
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-7E5F81
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Tal Y Garn 1 Hoard 950-750BC, one incomplete South Wales type socketed axe, one incomplete socketed axe, four ribbed socketed axes three incomplete and one fragment, one Southern English Type B ribbed socketed axe fragment, one South-Eaton Type Class A1 plain socketed axe, one plain socketed axe fragment and one incomplete ribbed late Palstave.
Created on: Tuesday 19th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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