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Description: | An incomplete late Bronze Age socketed knife. Only a fragment of the blade and the short waisted socketed hilt of this knife now survive, the rest of the blade is missing due to an old break, now worn.
The knife measures 42mm in surviving length, 23.4mm in width and is 13.5mm thick. The socket is oval in cross-section and has two parallel circular rivet holes through both faces. There is also a small crack and perforation through one of the squared sides of the socketeted hilt, this is due to damage. The knife is patinated a dark brown/green. It has a reasonably good surface condition but some recent probably agricultural grazing can be seen which exposes a bronze colour beneath the patination.
Double-edged socketed knifes usually date to LBA 3 (Ewart Park pahse c1000-800BC) in Britain, Ireland and NW France. Several other examples are known from hoards in Suffolk, for example the Thorndon and Foxhall hoards each contained double-edged socketed knives.
This knife was found c50m away from a tanged leather working knife (see SF-ABDF34) and these two items are therefore probably part of a late Bronze Age 'founder's hoard.' These two items therefore qualify as Treasure. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -1000
-800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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