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Early Bronze Age bronze dagger
With a plain blade (tip missing) and an angular butt with three rivets. Fragments of two hilt plates remain (which have a semi-lunate basal opening); one plate is well preserved, the other less so.
Dagger with wooden handle. This was found next to a man’s skeleton in a stone cist beneath a burial mound. 2150-1950 BCE.
LI7.3b
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
27.473/1
Find Information
Site Name: Corston Beacon, Hundleton
Notes: from a cist burial in the cairn with the extended skeletal remains of a man (27.473/2), perhaps of Beaker type.
Measurements
maximum length / mm:227.0
length / mm
thickness / mm:2.5 (of blade)
maximum width / mm:61.0*
width / mm
weight / g:161.6
length / mm:185.0 (of blade)
diameter / mm:14.0 x 16.0**
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