DEV-66E583: Knife

Dating

Bronze Age 1500BC - 1000BC

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Knife

Image courtesy Exeter City Council

Fragment of knife blade. it is 24mm in length, has a lozenge-shaped section and has an almost identical width at each broken end of 14.5mm. it is probably middle to late bronze age in date.

There are several such bronze age finds in devon, notably the talaton hoard (c.1050bc to 850bc), which is on display at the royal albert memorial museum, exeter with part of the hoard also at the british museum.

Location

  • Region: South West
  • County: Devon
  • District: South Hams
  • Parish: Marldon

Discovery


March 31, 2004

What happened to it?

Returned to finder

  • Made from: Copper alloy
  • Quantity: 1
  • Length: 24
  • Thickness: 3

Who identified it?

Stuart Needham

Discovery Contexts: Metal Detector
AHRC
British Museum
MicroPasts
Institute of Archaeology
Portable Antiquities