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Late Bronze Age chisel
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Arwen Wood, 2017-07-24 14:44:17
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Late Bronze Age chisel
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English: Probably an incomplete Late Bronze Age chisel or leather-working knife dating from the 10th-9th century BC. Only the blade and part of the collar survive. The artefact was composed of a wide, triangular/crescent-shaped blade and a rectangular-sectioned tang. Tang and blade were separated by a now very worn collar.

These artefacts tend to be identified as chisels, i.e. wood-working tools, such as in <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/845449" title="View details for WREX-9F314E">WREX-9F314E</a>. However, they resemble (in size and shape) Earliest Iron Age so-called socketed chisels (<a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/785093" title="View details for SUR-2B05A8">SUR-2B05A8</a>) which have now been reinterpreted as leather-working knives. Thus, the earlier tanged examples may be better identified as leather-working knives owing to their often thin, wide blades (<a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/846727" title="View details for IOW-383C47">IOW-383C47</a> and <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/806927" title="View details for WAW-CEC22C">WAW-CEC22C).</a>

The chisel measures 37.9mm in length, 41.1mm in width, 5.7mm at maximum thickness at the tang, and weighs 19.61g.

Similar knives are still in used today: <a href="http://www.knipknives.com/leather.php">http://www.knipknives.com/leather.php</a>
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 1000 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 856844
Old ref: BUC-8D28F7
Filename: BUC8D28F72.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/623173
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/623173/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/856844
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Object location51° 42′ 24.12″ N, 0° 54′ 31.3″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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