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Bronze Age dagger or knife
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Katie Hinds, 2012-05-30 11:46:51
Title
Bronze Age dagger or knife
Description
English: 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).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 1300 BC and 900 BC
Accession number
FindID: 505342
Old ref: WILT-5F99C5
Filename: WILT-5F99C5.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/383426
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/383426/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/505342
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