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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy socketed sickle blade of Bronze Age date. Weight is 12.08g, length of the fragment is 46.69mm, width is 16.73mm and thickness is 3.59mm. The cross section is oval or a sub lozenge. The edges are quite chewed, but Cyril Fox lists parallels from the River Thames (Tilehurst, Berks.; Plate XXIV, no 5), Norwich (Norfolk, Plate XXVI, no. 12) which have a similar straight blade. Due to the fragmentary remains of this blade it is impossible to determine whether the sickle was laterally or vertically socketed. Most of these socketed sickles are part of the Ewart Park metalwork assemblage. They're not unusual finds in the Cambridgeshire area and date from the Late Bronze Age, c. 1000-800BC. See Fox, C. 1939. The socketed bronze sickles of the British Isles. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society N.S.5, Parts 1 and 2, No. 11, pp. 222-248.
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