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Early Bronze Age bronze knife or dagger
With plain thin blade, round tip and three rivet holes (one damaged) in a rounded butt. The blade is broken, but rejoined at the hilt end.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
01.361/1
Find Information
Site Name: Candleston Castle, Merthyr Mawr Warren
Notes: found, together with fragments of food-vessel 01.361/2, with the cremated bones of a young person (01.360), sex uncertain, in a cist approximately 400m west of Candleston Castle
Acquisition
donation, 1901
Measurements
Length
(mm): 118.0
maximum width
(mm): 47.5
maximum thickness
(mm): 2.0
diameter
(mm): 3.0-5.0 (of rivets)
Weight
(g): 35.7
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B1*
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