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Description: | The copper-alloy blade and a small fragment of the 'tang' of a late Bronze Age leather working knife (previously these objects were considered to be chisels).
The blade is triangular in shape, measuring 36mm in surviving length and 5.2mm in width at the tang flaring to 28mm in width at the blade end. The blade has slightly convex sides. There are some sharpening striations visible on the better preserved area of the blade edge. The blade has a dark brown patina but green corrosive products can be seen and invasive corrosion with numerous pocks and bubbles can be seen towards the blade edge. The blade edge is incomplete due to this corrosion. The 'tang' has an oval cross-section and is missing due to an old break, now worn.
This knife dates from LBA2 (C1200-1000 BC) or LBA3 (c1000-800 BC). It is possible that the incomplete tang was originally collared and similar to, for example, one from Mildenhall (B Connor 1980, list 131, 30 and Pendleton 1999, fig 67.295). O'Connor listed 37 British examples and 3 from N E France in 1980.
This leather working knife was found c50m away from a socketed double-edged knife (see sf-abb001). It is therefore likely that these two items are part of a late Bronze Age 'founder's' hoard, they 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: | -1200
-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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