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Early Bronze Age bronze knife or dagger
With plain ogival blade with bevelled edges and damaged angular butt; tip missing. The butt retains the semi-lunar marking of the handle and two of its three rivet-holes. One of the rivets originally surviving, but now lost following analysis.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
20.435
Find Information
Site Name: Cowbridge High School, Cowbridge
Notes: found with a skeleton in the grounds of the school
Acquisition
Donation, 18/10/1920
Measurements
(): maximum length / mm:119.0
(): length / mm
(): maximum width / mm:53.0 (at hilt end)
(): width / mm
(): maximum thickness / mm:1.5
(): thickness / mm
(): diameter / mm:3.5 (of rivet holes)
(): weight / g:42.9
Material
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: B4
Northover's composition group: B1*
Location
In store
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