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Unique ID: WAW-600E31
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete cast copper alloy awl of probable Bronze Age date, circa 2150 BC - 800 BC. At one end the point tapers in a sub-circular section. The tang end is flattened and becomes sub-rectangular in section. The shaft is rectangular in section. The surface of the awl is worn with an uneven dark green and mid brown surface patina. Identified as probably dating to the Bronze Age owning to the fabric of the object. However, as a functional object the form of the awl barely changes from the Bronze Age to Medieval periods and a selection of broadly comparable awls are recorded in Ottaway and Rodgers: 2002 Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York, p2729-2730. Ottaway and Rodgers note that although most awls are associated with leather working, some would have been used in woodworking, bone working and other crafts. A similar awl is recorded under reference SWYOR-320717.
Length is 58.38mm. Width at the shaft is 4.76mm and thickness at the same point is 3.83mm. Weight is 5.8g.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2150 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Quantity: 1
Length: 58.38 mm
Width: 4.76 mm
Thickness: 3.83 mm
Weight: 5.8 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 22nd September 2013
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SP1551
Four figure Latitude: 52.15707618
Four figure longitude: -1.7821565
1:25K map: SP1551
1:10K map: SP15SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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