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Description: | A copper alloy socketed axe of Llyn-Fawr or Sompting type. The mouth is square and there is a side loop just below the mouth moulding. The axe has a straight-sided body and blade so that the axe looks rectangular face-on and triangular in section. Both faces of the axe are decorated with eight vertical ribs, running from the mouth down the length of the axe towards the blade end and ending in eight round pellets (one pellet per rib) a little more than half way down the axe. At the top end of the ribs are two mouldings running around the circumference/width of the axe which are a 10mm apart from each other. There are casting flashes running the length of both sides. There is some damage to one face of the axe and to the cutting edge of the blade but it is hard to tell whether this is secondary to burial.
The width of the socket is 31.8 mm and the depth of the socket is 29.5 mm; the width of the moulding around the socket is 43.3 mm and the width of the blade is 41.3 mm above the side loop and 33.4 mm below the side loop. | Subjects: | Llyn-Fawr or Sompting type | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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