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Description: | A Late Bronze Age copper alloy chisel, dating to c. 1000-700BC. The object is solid cast and roughly concoidal in shape, tapering from one end to the other. There is a circular socket at the widest end which would have held a wooden or bone handle, is 15.1mm in external diameter. The circular sectioned shaft then narrows to create a rectangular sectioned blade end. The blade is convex in shape and is 7.7mm in width.The chisel is 76.7mm long and weighs 33.87 grams.The chisel is very similar to another on the database, NMS-5DC7C7 which cites an example from the Burton Upon Stather hoard illustrated in Inventoria Archaeologia, GB.23, 3 (3), no.14. c.1000 - c.700 century BC.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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