Object: Socketed Gouge
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff,Wynne of Peniarth Collection
Site: England,Shropshire,Parish of Selattyn,Oswestry (near?),Proved by a label gummed on it "From Mr. Ormsby Gore, 1864," to be the missing gouge from Brogyntyn. This gouge is reported as being found with tanged chisel, which in turn seems to be part of the "Oswestry Bronzes" Hoard. See Lord Harlech's Collection, No. 2
Parish: Oswestry
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 95
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 16
Associations: G. Sword and small lugged Chisel.
Description: Of the usual circular socketed type.
Publications: Arch. Jo. VII, 195 (1850),Evans, "Anc. Br. Imps", 168, 174, 466,Breden, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops. I, 202