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On the Date of an Axe-Hammer from Llangeitho Cardiganshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

H. A. Hyde
H. A. Hyde
Affiliation:
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
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The large perforated stone axe-hammer, illustrated by fig. 1, was found in 1933 in a peat bog near Cwrt Farm, Llangeitho, Cardiganshire (6-in. O.S. Cards, XX, S.E.). It is described by W. F. Grimes (1935) as being ‘related typologically to other axes which can be dated to the Bronze Age’; he adds ‘a date within that period may be accepted as the most likely. The position and circumstances in which it was found favour such an early date without confirming it.’ The same circumstances suggested that the find might perhaps be dated by the method of pollen analysis. The object itself was examined, but it had already been cleaned thoroughly, and even scraping inside the socket yielded only the merest traces of peat, quite insufficient for analysis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , July 1939 , pp. 166 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1939

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