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Description: | Miniature cast copper alloy chisel in the form of fine carving chisel. The edge is too sharp and soft, and would roll over if it were used as a chisel, so it is probably a votive piece. The knife marks at the broken or 'hafted' end opposite the blade show that the blade has been levered off from something longer.Miniature tools and weapons manufactured during the Bronze Age are larger than this example, and the recorder has not seen any other models of chisels from the Iron Age and Roman periods, where utilised chisels were generally made of iron.There are, however, examples of Roman copper alloy votive models of tools and weapons, such as an axe in Crummy (1983) on page 146, Fig.178, No.4282, and a spearhead in Bishop (1996) on page 9, Fig.4, No.14.This example seems cruder and more like Medieval iron chisels in its shape and size, such as one illustrated in Margeson (1993) on page 175, Fig.125, No.1362, which is only about 52mm long and is dated from the 13th to the 14th century.There were also iron wedges, used in the Medieval period for wood-splitting, that this artefact may be been modelled on. Some are the same length as this model and may have been used for a tool handle, such as the examples illustrated in Ottaway and Rogers (2002) on page 2726, Fig.1336, Nos.14872 (30mm long) & 14873, which are dated to the 14th century.
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