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Description: | Bronze Age razor, cast in copper alloy. The blade is double edged and leaf shaped. There is a central ridge on each face of the blade which extends out from the tang to the tip of the blade. The rounded ridge has a slight depression to either side, before the surface slopes towards each blade edge, giving it a lozenge cross section. The two blade edges are worn. The back end of the blade curves round to an integrally cast tang. The blade is 29.22mm long, 14.99mm wide and 3.68mm thick. The sub-triangular tang is 7.26mm wide where is joins the blade, and tapers to a width of 2.54mm. The tang curves towards the tip, and has a small notch on one edge towards the blade end. The tang is rectangular in section, it is 22.26mm long with a thickness of 2.05mm. The razor has an even mid-green patina. The total length of the razor (blade with tang) measures 55.42mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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