File:Bronze Age rapier or dirk (plan and return). (FindID 971684).jpg

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Bronze Age rapier or dirk (plan and return).
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2019-09-19 20:37:56
Title
Bronze Age rapier or dirk (plan and return).
Description
English: A fragment of a copper alloy Middle Bronze Age dirk (small rapier) dating to the period c.1500 - 1150 BC found in 2 adjoining pieces. The break between the two pieces is probably recent and reveals a slightly purple crystalline matrix with many air bubbles. The edges of the breaks are not abraded but crisp. The butt is a slender trapezoidal with two rivet holes across the lower edge. There is a copper alloy rivet within each rivet hole. From these rivet holes the sides of the rapier expand into the shoulders of the blade. The maximum width of these shoulders is 31.03mm. From the shoulders the edge of the rapier narrows into the blade. From this point the blade itself tapers in width more gradually to almost have straight edges towards a broken edge. This break also feels fresh with crisp edges. The blade is an elongated lozenge in cross-section with no clearly defined mid-rib or edge bevels.

The object has a matte mid-dark green-brown patina.

The length of the rapier measures 82.58mm, 31.03mm wide, 13.05mm thick at the rivets, 4.81mm thick at the blade break and together they weigh 35.3g. its maximum thickness is 6.8mm.

The object is likely a Burgess and Gerloff's Group IV (1981) and dating to the period c. 1500-c. 1150 BC.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 1500 BC and 1150 BC
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 971684
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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/1073663
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1073663/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/971684
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License
Object location52° 20′ 12.12″ N, 1° 17′ 00.78″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current00:21, 2 December 2020Thumbnail for version as of 00:21, 2 December 20204,118 × 5,277 (6.39 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, WAW, FindID: 971684-1073663, bronze age, page 1417, batch count 24956

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