File:Bronze Age bone dagger (FindID 102293-87334).tif

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Bronze Age bone dagger
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2005-07-27 11:26:01
Title
Bronze Age bone dagger
Description
English: A fragment from near the tip of a polished bone dagger similar to other Suffolk examples, see Beck Row, SMR reference number MNL 145, Worlington, reference number WGN 008. This and previous examples are most likely to be Bronze Age in date.
This fragment consits of a split and sharpened bone with part of the circular marrow core surviving. It is plano-convex in cross-section and there are old breaks near th tip and roughly mid-blade. The surviving fragment shows numerous sharpening and abrasive linear marks and facets. There is also a slight split visible along the length of the convex face. The bone is medium brown. It measures 76mm in surviving length, 21mm in width, 8mm in thickness and 11g in weight.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 2150 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 102293
Old ref: SF-104216
Filename: MNL560SF-104216.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/70381
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/70381/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/102293
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