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Early Bronze Age bronze dagger
Badly corroded and fragmentary, with no trace of decoration. One rivet hole surviving. Described as either a knife or dagger in; Savory, B.A. Cat.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
40.179/11
Find Information
Site Name: Sutton 268', Llandow
Grid Reference: SS 950 722
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1940
Notes: from cremation burial (A) in a central position in the secondary barrow
Acquisition
Donation, 16/5/1940
Measurements
maximum length / mm:63.5
length / mm
maximum width / mm:28.0 (at handle end)
width / mm
thickness / mm:2.0
weight / g:8.2
diameter / mm:2.5 (of rivet hole)
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B4
Location
In store
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