Object: Socketed Axe
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Wales,38.342/1
Site: Wales,Merionethshire,Trawsfynydd,Cae-glas Farm,Some years before 1938.,Found under peat 200 ft. NE of farm
Parish: Trawsfynydd
County: Gwynedd
Country: Wales
Grid reference: XXNW; 116.725362
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 18
Edge (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 24
Weight (g): 121
Patina: Gone
Surface: Cleaned
Description: Photo AC 1958, Plus I
Publications: PW, no. 497,In AC, 1958, 17, 43 (fig. 2.I), 59 (map 2).,H.N. Savmy corrected PW 497 which had ascribed this axe to be late square-sectioned Breton series, and ascribed it instead to the early, North European series, assigned to "Late Bronze A." by H.W.M. Hodges, ILJA 1956, 45ff, and to her Middle Bronze Axe ornament [?horizon] + Tongone & Smith: PPS 1959.