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Description: | A cast copper alloy awl or other leather working tool. The awl has a square cross section in the centre, from where the awl tapers to a rounded point at one end and aflattened point at the other - this flattened end was probably the tang and the tool would have been inserted into a wooden or bone handle. The patina on the awl is a deep even green. Together with the size and form of the awl, the patina suggests a late Bronze Age date (c. 1250-700 BC), although leather working tools did not change from this period through into the Roman period and even into the medieval period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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