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Description: | Complete copper alloy Bronze Age awl. The awl is essentially a shaft, rectangular in section, with a swelling approximately two thirds along its length, which gives it an elongated, flattened lentoid shape in plan and profile. The longer end of the awl, before the swelling, tapers to a rounded blunt point, whilst the other, shorter portion terminates with a sharper point. The object is abraded. Where the original surface survives it has an even mid green patina, whilst exposed surfaces are lighter green. The tool is 60.68mm long, 5.68mm wide and 5.42mm thick. It weighs 7.55g. Stuart Needham?s report in Longley & Needham 1980 (Runnymede Bridge 1976: Excavations on the site of a Late Bronze Age settlement, Surrey Archaeological Society, Guildford, page 19) discusses awls or bradawls or tracers as they are sometimes called. He comments that they cannot be dated with any accuracy or placed in a secure chronology, as they are found in Early Bronze Age graves as well as middle and late Bronze Age hoards. | 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: | -2150
-800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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