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Description: | A tip fragment of a cast copper-alloy Middle Bronze Age rapier. The blade is lozenge-shaped in cross-section and has a slight rib running down the centre of both sides. The rapier belongs to C. Burgess? Group II, lozenge blade section (1968, 3). The blade is slightly curved and bends upwards at the broken end. The blade has had some plough damage and the edges of the blade are worn and feathered in parts. The tip of the blade has a patch of brown patina on both sides, but most of the blade is a bright green colour. The surviving length 113.3mm, the widest part is 22.6mm, the thickness is 4.3mm and the weight is 28.34g.
Group II rapiers come from the first phrase of the Middle Bronze Age, known as the Pickering Phrase c.1400-1200 (Burgess, 1968, 3). | 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: | -1400
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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