Object: Sickle
Classification: Socketed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Wales,12.11/8
Site: Wales,Glamorgan,Rhigos,Llynfawr Reservoir
Parish: Rhigos
County: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 189
Width (mm): 32
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 4
Weight (g): 255
Patina: Dark greenish and greyish green patina.
Surface: Smooth. Stem of socket is very slightly encrusted outside and on one side there is a thin layer of fine gravel almost all over.
Other: Length: blade 189mm; socket 105mm,Width: blade 43mm; socket 32mm,Thickness: blade 4mm; 6mm; socket 25mm,Weight: 255.15 gms
Associations: One of a hoard.
Description: Probably bronze coated with iron, if not iron throughout. A small piece of shaft remains also part of a rivet. Of a type rare outside the British Isles. Although made on a bronze model appears to be of iron and thus belongs to a period when iron was first introduced and its technique not yet properly mastered. Edge is rather chipped and the collar at socket mouth is a separate piece of metal from the rest.
Publications: PW, No. 690/8