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Late Bronze Age socketed knife
Features a tapering blade with broadly bevelled edges, with traces of wood in the socket. The blade is much reduced through corrosion and damage. Part of the socket remains, partly preserving a pair of copper alloy rivets. These are set side by side in the socket close to its junction with the blade.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
81.78H/141
Find Information
Site Name: The Breidden Hillfort, Criggion
Grid Reference: SJ 292 144
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1969-1976
Notes: found at a lower level than the wall gully of Iron Age roundhouse R12 in the interior, but not securely stratified, (Co-ord. B 321209)
Measurements
length / mm:125.0
width / mm:21.0 (of blade)
thickness / mm:3.5
weight / g:31.1
Material
copper alloy
iron
Location
In store
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