File:3901 Cast copper alloy socketed knife fragment (FindID 417584).jpg

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3901 Cast copper alloy socketed knife fragment.jpg
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Bristol City Council, Kurt Adams, 2010-11-25 15:09:06
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3901 Cast copper alloy socketed knife fragment.jpg
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Cast copper alloy socketed knife fragment. The remaining fragment consists of the socket and lower section of the blade. The socket is oval in cross section, it is 30mm long and 22.5mm, wide (internal dimension of the aperture 19mm long, 11mm wide). The sides of the sockets are slightly concave creating a narrowed waist that is 19.5mm wide. There is a single rivet hole in the centre of the socket. The remainder of the blade is 32mm long, this represents the lower part of the blade only. The sides narrow towards the tip suggesting that the blade may have originally been leaf-shaped. In section the blade has a slight curve, this is not post depositional damage but part of the original casting and similar to examples such as GLO-5E5633 and CORN-87C1E1, which both have a blades that are curved in section creating a U-shape. The bend in the blade is intentional, Evens suggests that such tools were used for woodworking, perhaps for hollowing out (1881, 209).

Evans, J, 1881, The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland Longmans, [pages: 209-10 ]

Depicted place (County of findspot) Gloucestershire
Date between 1100 BC and 800 BC
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FindID: 417584
Old ref: GLO-E7BF27
Filename: 3901 Cast copper alloy socketed knife fragment.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/306401
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/306401/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/417584
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current09:18, 6 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 09:18, 6 February 20171,316 × 1,611 (1.13 MB) (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, GLO, FindID: 417584, bronze age, page 9348, batch primary count 88660

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