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  This Bronze Age site was searched on a number of occasions without any significant success. Then one day Steve and another friend started turning up various Bronze Age artefacts from virtualy all over the site.It is generaly thought not to be a founder's hoard as almost all the items have come from all over the three or four acres.
  The finds included six socketed axes, varoius unidentified bits of bronze, three sections of cauldron handle moulds, two cauldron handles (rings) a number of pieces of bowls, cauldrons and chariot fittings.
  An investagative excavation has been made of the site and it was found that the Romans built on top of the probably more important Bronze Age site thus making it difficult to determine the exact nature of the settlement. A more detailed excavation is planned hopefully for some time in the future.

One important discovery from the site was the finding of a socketed Bretton axe from the 5th cent. B.C.(right). It is understood that this is a significant find as it is unusal to Wales and it predates the other axes by about three hundred years.

One of the small socketed axes (left) found on the site showing damage to the fastening loop.

Many of the axes found varied in type and condition(see below right).

The two pictures below show the excavation site.As can be seen the archaeology is right on the limit for detecting this probably why larger items were detected and only under the right conditions

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