File:355 knife dorsal (FindID 81794).jpg

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355 knife dorsal.JPG
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2004-11-30 10:14:33
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355 knife dorsal.JPG
Description
English: Knife (Probably) 
Early Bronze Age  

Length 40mm, width 23mm, thickness 8mm 



Most of the bulb of percussion is missing, obscured by retouch along one of the blades, the bulb is on the side of the artefact, towards the bottom of the left blade.  The dorsal is flat with a blade running down both sides, pointed at the top flat retouched blunted base.  Both of the blades are retouched and bifacial, the blade on the left has much larger flaking scars covering about a quarter of its surface.
Mid grey patina, very occasional orange speckles at the top of the flaking scars.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date BRONZE AGE
Accession number
FindID: 81794
Old ref: GLO-B4A377
Filename: 355 knife dorsal.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/44518
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/44518/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/81794
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