File:AWL (FindID 783893).jpg

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AWL
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Richard Henry, 2016-05-27 12:21:13
Title
AWL
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A Bronze Age bone awl, probably dating to the period 2150 BC - 800 BC. One end of the bone retains the distal condyle while the other has been narrowed to create a pointed tip. The tip would have been used to pierce other materials.

The front of the awl shows a lower recess created removing part of the bone which reveals a inner chamber. Just above the recess there is a decoration composed by three incided and trasversal lines. Part of the decoration is not visible due to an old circular break of the bone. Both sides of the recess is a small groove. The reverse part is smooth with a central incised line running down through it. The object has been filed and polished. It measures 36.58mm in length, 10.81mm maximum width (measured at the condyle), 1.17mm minimum width (measured at the tip), 4.16mm in thick and weights 6.48g.

The awl was found with a sherd of flint-tempered pottery recorded as WILT-99E11D and probably dating to the Late Bronze Age.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 2150 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 783893
Old ref: WILT-98DF4E
Filename: WILT98DF4E.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/568503
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/568503/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 24 November 2020)
Object location51° 15′ 37.44″ N, 1° 48′ 19.94″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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