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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
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
maximum width
(mm): 28.0 (at handle end)
thickness
(mm): 2.0
Weight
(g): 8.2
diameter
(mm): 2.5 (of rivet hole)
Material
Copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B4
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