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Description: | Dagger
Middle-Late Bronze Age
Length 63mm, width 16mm, thickness 2.7mm
The blade is lenticular with a very low ridge running down the centre on both the top and bottom sides. The blade gradually narrows to a point at on end whilst the other terminal is slightly rounded, this may have been the original butt, although it is so badly corroded it is difficult to tell.
Light green pitted colour none of the original surface remains and the artefact has suffered considerably from corrosion.
The butt end has been bent back on itself the cracking in the corrosion on the outside of the bend and the bare metal exposed on the inside of the bend suggest that it is post depositional damage. It is also possible that the tip was bent as well but has been striated by the finder resulting in a large amount of the surface flaking away. | 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: | -1600
-1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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