Adze
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
Unknown
Materials
Hardwood, Metal
Measurements
50 mm (Width) x 60 mm (Depth); 110 mm (Width); 1100 mm (Length); 330 mm (Length)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 552189
Summary
Long handled adze. Long wooden handle/shaft and ferrous metal head. Head fixed to shaft by square collar moulded into head. One end head broad flat (horizontal). Cutting edge tapers towards narrow collar. Other end of head squat. Rectangular piece joined to collar.
Provenance
Purchased as part of Geler Jones Collection in 1994.