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Early Bronze Age flint dagger
With lanceolate blade, demarcated from straight-sided pointed tang by two slight shoulders. Widest in the middle, the blade and tang being of equal length, with a pair of hafting notches on each side of the latter below the shoulders. The surface is well worked and ground in parts. Brown lines across the base of the blade mark the line of the handle.
Finely crafted flint dagger, 2300-2000 BCE. Large pieces of flint were flaked to produce a broad cutting edge.
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Site Name: Plas-y-gors Farm, Ystradfellte
Notes: the cairn is 1200m south-west of the farmhouse. The dagger was found 2m east of the centre of the cairn in a black layer on the old ground surface. (The Western Mail - 31st October 1898) - A Better way of settling the "Caer Moesau,” controversy would be to dig deep, not into history, but into the ruins. This time last year Mr. Cantrell, of the Geological Survey, dug into the Plasygors Carn, Ystradfellte, and the Cardiff Museum is richer by 50 implements of flint, including a dagger-knife, arrow-head, knives scrapers, and strike-a-light twenty-one shards of pottery; fragments of calcined bones; and fragments of wood charcoal.
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