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Description: | A copper tanged knife or dagger. The blade and tang are both thin with a rectangular cross section. The tang tapers very slightly into a rounded end. The blade is slightly an irregular pointed oval shape in outline and tapers to a a rounded tip. The missing handle has left a faint trace in the sutface corrosion as an ogival arc on the hilt.Date: Early Bronze Age - c. 2300 - 2500 BC - ChalcolithicDimensions: 47.14 mm x 11.31 mm x 5.62 mmWeight: 8.67 gSimilar objects are recorded in HESH-7C7854, LANCUM-3BEC10, NCL-093B77, SUR-38BFA5. Peter Reavill comments that this example takes the national corpus to around 44 and that this is the fith example on the PAS database.Dot Boughton notes in her record for LANCUM-3BEC10 - Most examples occur in early Beaker 'classic' grave assemblages associated with low-carinated Beakers, wrist guards, etc.
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