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Bronze Age Knife Blade (fragment)
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Frank Basford, 2014-05-26 14:04:39
Title
Bronze Age Knife Blade (fragment)
Description
English: A fragment of a Bronze Age cast copper-alloy knife blade (c. 1500 BC-c. 750 BC).

This blade tip is triangular in plan and lozenge-shaped in cross-section.

It has an olive green patina with some corrosion on both faces. The edges are sharp and the transverse break is old.

Height: 25.4mm; width at break: 7.5mm; thickness: 1.9mm. Weight: 1.06g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Isle of Wight
Date between 1500 BC and 750 BC
Accession number
FindID: 618393
Old ref: IOW-257342
Filename: IOW2014-3-41.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/469674
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/469674/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/618393
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