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Description: | Triangular copper-alloy Early Iron Age 'Hallstatt' razor; one loop remains though damaged. It is decorated with a row of 'hanging triangles' (perforations) of which two remain.Type Unterstall/Poiseul razors have trapezoidal shaped blades, a strengthening rib between the two rings and the blade and have, like Felkirch/Bernissart razors, decorative perforation in the upper part of the blade. However, while the perforations in Feldkirch/Bernissart razors are circular or rectangular, Unterstall/Poiseul razors have triangular ones. Jockenhövel lists their main distribution in southern France, southwest Bavaria and northern Germany, with finds from, e.g. Magny-Lambert, Dép. Côte-d'Or and Poiseul-la-Ville-et-La-Perrière, Dép. Côte-d'Or (Jockenhövel 1980, 176-177). He suggests that, in general, their region of origin would have been somewhere in Western Europe where these razors of Type Unterstall/Poiseul, along with razors of Types Felkirch/Bernissart, Endingen and Flörsheim represented the most typical group of Early Iron Age razors. Jockenhövel's suggested Western European distribution of this type can now be underlined with four new finds from southern England: Wickham Skeith, Suffolk; St Alban's, Herts.; Salisbury/Netherhampton hoard, Wilts. and Bowerchalke, Wilts. Thus, this new find from Cambridgeshire fits in very well. Early Iron Age razors like these are usually found singly or in hoards - one other has come up recently (from Milnthorpe, Cumbria) which has also been recorded on the Scheme's database (NMS-01D7D8).The photograph was kindly supplied by the finder.Lit: Jockenhoevel, A. Die Rasiermesser in Westeuropa (Westdeutschland, Niederlande, Belgien, Luxemburg, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Irland). Prähistorische Bronzefunde VIII,3 (Verlag C.H. Beck, München [1980]) IX, 239 S., 104 Tafeln.
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