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Description: | A fragment of Middle/ Late Bronze Age (c.1300 BC - 900 BC) copper alloy probable rapier, consisting of part of the blade just below the shoulders. It measures 37.14x(max)17.63x(max)3.99mm and weighs 8.3g.One end is slightly wider and flatter (17.63x1.63mm) than the other (15.67x3.99mm), and presumably extended from the shoulders. The narrower end is lozenge-shaped at the break, the wider end also but much more shallowly. Both breaks are ancient.The blade has a broad flat midrib, widening and flattening towards the wider and flatter end.Dot Boughton, FLO for Lancashire and Cumbria, comments that although the fragment is too small to be certain of its type, it is probably a rapier becuase it has a narrower blade with nearly parallel sides. It dates to the Taunton-Wilburton metalwork assemblages, c.1300 BC - 900 BC.
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