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RAPIER
Unique ID: LIN-C85357
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragmentary rapier of Middle Bronze Age date. The object consists of the butt end and the blade which is broken. The attachment end is slightly curved and in each corner is a rivet hole; one of the holes still contains a flat-headed copper-alloy rivet. The attachment end is abraded one of the holes is incomplete. Below it expands, with stepped shoulders, to the widest point. Beyond the blade narrows gradually, still narrowing at the break, though increasingly less steeply. The edges of the blade are bevelled on both sides; the cross-section at the break has the appearance of an oval with winged protrusions.The artefact perhaps belongs to the Penard metalworking phase.
Notes:
This object was recorded at a rally. The description and photograph may not therefore meet the usual standard of recording.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1300 BC
Date to: Circa 1050 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 75.24 mm
Width: 33.61 mm
Thickness: 5.98 mm
Weight: 43.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 17th September 2010
Rally details.
This object was found at Grange de Lings, Lincolnshire
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Grange De Lings (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK9877
Four figure Latitude: 53.280928
Four figure longitude: -0.531619
1:25K map: SK9877
1:10K map: SK97NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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