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Bronze Age Plano Convex Knife
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Lucy Shipley, 2019-06-25 22:53:22
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Bronze Age Plano Convex Knife
Description
English: A complete plano convex flint knife of late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age date, c. 2700-1600 BC.

Formed from a secondary flake, the object is sub-rectangular in shape, and plano-convex in cross section. It is formed of a dark grey flint, with no patinisation on the surface. The proximal end has been carefully texturised in order to create a consistent squared finish.There is invasive retouch pressure flaking covering almost the entirety of the dorsal face, with the bulb of percussion clearly visible on the ventral face. An additional removal is visible adjacent to the bulb of percussion. It is possible that the object was discarded due to an accidentally over large retouch removal which is plainly visible.

Similar examples have been recorded on the PAS database including: WAW-3FD07D, WAW-C0CAE9, WAW-C0CAE9, WMID-F23B97; HESH-BD97A2; SWYOR-B645D2 and SUR-E41676. such knives are found in late Neolithic to early Bronze Age (c.2700 BC to c.1600 BC) contexts, often associated with food vessels and beakers in the early Bronze Age (Butler 2005,172). Plano-convex knives could measure up to 150mm long, but this is not common (ibid).

Measurements: 45.62mm long, 16.6mm wide, 4.7mm thick and weight 5.18g
Depicted place (County of findspot) Devon
Date between 2700 BC and 1600 BC
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FindIdentifier: 959345
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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/1062902
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1062902/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/959345
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