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Bronze Age Chisel or Leather Working Knife
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Andrew Brown, 2010-02-19 12:38:31
Title
Bronze Age Chisel or Leather Working Knife
Description
English: An incomplete cast copper-alloy tanged chisel or leather working knife of Late Bronze Age date. It is triangular in form and rectangular in section, tapering to a rounded blade end. The tang end tapers towards a point and terminates in old breaks. The entire object is extremely worn with traces of a brown/green patina visible in patches, but the surfaces are mostly now incomplete with extensive pitting and some pale green corrosive products present. The entire object measures 46.90mm in length, 30.02mm in width at blade end, 4.61mm in thickness, and weighs 15.34g. This object is of Late Bronze Age date, c.1150-800 BC, with a similar example noted in Pendleton, 1999: no. 300.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 1150 BC and 800 BC
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FindID: 288977
Old ref: SF-D4DE44
Filename: WLD SF-D4DE44.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/239721
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/239721/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/288977
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