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[edit]| Late Bronze Age chisel | |||
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Arwen Wood, 2017-07-24 14:44:17 |
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Late Bronze Age chisel |
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| Description |
English: Probably an incomplete Late Bronze Age chisel or leather-working knife dating from the 10th-9th century BC. Only the blade and part of the collar survive. The artefact was composed of a wide, triangular/crescent-shaped blade and a rectangular-sectioned tang. Tang and blade were separated by a now very worn collar.
These artefacts tend to be identified as chisels, i.e. wood-working tools, such as in <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/845449" title="View details for WREX-9F314E">WREX-9F314E</a>. However, they resemble (in size and shape) Earliest Iron Age so-called socketed chisels (<a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/785093" title="View details for SUR-2B05A8">SUR-2B05A8</a>) which have now been reinterpreted as leather-working knives. Thus, the earlier tanged examples may be better identified as leather-working knives owing to their often thin, wide blades (<a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/846727" title="View details for IOW-383C47">IOW-383C47</a> and <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/806927" title="View details for WAW-CEC22C">WAW-CEC22C).</a> The chisel measures 37.9mm in length, 41.1mm in width, 5.7mm at maximum thickness at the tang, and weighs 19.61g. Similar knives are still in used today: <a href="http://www.knipknives.com/leather.php">http://www.knipknives.com/leather.php</a> |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Oxfordshire | ||
| Date | between 1000 BC and 800 BC | ||
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FindID: 856844 Old ref: BUC-8D28F7 Filename: BUC8D28F72.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/623173 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/623173/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/856844 |
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