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Description: | A cast tanged dagger or knife.The blade is double edged, tapering, with a central ridge producing a lozengiform profile, At the top is a broken tang with a single, circular attachment hole ( about 4 mm diameter). The tang is narrowed from the top of the blade with angled sides. The dagger has breaks at both ends.Date: Late Bronze Age - c. 1000-850 BCDimensions: 73.38 mm x 18.83 mm x 4.01 mmWeight: 18.66 gKatie Hinds has recorded a similar blade as record WILT-83A428 and dates it to the late Bronze Age Wilburton and Ewart Park phases.Dot Boughton has commented that Burgess and Gerloff include a blade of similar shape and size in their Group II (Damaged Blades Modified for Rehafting), p. 36ff. Its their no. 248 from Marston Trussel, Northamptonshire which is c. 12.6cm long and 2.1cm wide. It is described as "Tanged blade, either a knife made in this form or possibly a dirk with butt cut down for rehafting, in which case the torn rivet hole would have been secondary; rather won brown green surfaces with some patches of bright green corrosion; edges worn and chipped." Plate 32, no 248.
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