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Late Bronze Age bronze socketed knife
With a plain leaf-shaped blade demarcated from the oval-sectioned short socket by slight shoulders. The socket itself contains a pair of opposed circular rivet holes.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
19.251
Find Information
Site Name: Minera, Wrexham
Notes: Found at the bottom of a fissure (whither it had fallen from the surface) in an unidentified limestone quarry at Minera.
Acquisition
donation, 21/10/1921
Measurements
maximum length
(mm): 158.0
Length
(mm): 124.0 (of blade)
thickness
(mm): 3.5 - 5.0 (of blade)
external diameter
(mm): 22.0 x 12.0*
internal diameter
(mm): 19.0 x 10.0*
diameter
(mm): 4.5 (of peg hole)
Weight
(g): 56.2
Material
Copper alloy
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