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Description: | A blade fragment of Middle/ Late Bronze Age (1300-900 BC) copper alloy dagger, consisting of part of the blade just below the shoulders. It measures 46.51x26.45x2.67mm and weighs 12.02g.One end is slightly wider and flatter (26.45x1.70mm) than the other (16.32x2.03mm), and presumably extends from the missing shoulders. On both faces is a broad flat mid-rib and the edges are bevelled. On one face the midrib shows signs of hammering along its length. The narrower end is lozenge-shaped at the break, the wider end also but much more shallowly. Both breaks are oldish but still quite jagged. The blade is thickest at the centre (2.67mm).Although the object is too small and fragmentary to be assigned to a type with certainty, it is most likely a dagger becuase it looks like it had a broad-extended blade, and dates to the Taunton-Wilburton metalworking phases becuase of the lack of V-shaped ornament along the midrib, which would suggest an earlier date (Dot Boughton 2012 pers.comm).
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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