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BLADE
Unique ID: NMGW-44CA5F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy blade tip, possibly a tip from a spearhead of Bronze Age date
The object is represented by the tip only (with a surviving length of 16.9mm and a weight of 2.1g). The break is old and the tip is of lozenge section at the break (with a maximum width of 11.5mm and a maximum thickness of 4.5mm). The blade edges have been lost but the blade appears to be straight and convergent to the tip. Both faces have a prominent rounded midrib continuing to the tip. The surface is corroded with remnants of a dark-green patina and the suggestion of sharpening striations running along the blade.
The fragmentary state of the object makes any identification speculative but the form is consistent with spearheads, probably of Middle and Late Bronze Age date, c. 1500 - 700BC
Class: blade tip, possibly a tip from a spearhead
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16.9 mm
Weight: 2.1 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMWPA 2014.149.16
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Broughton Gifford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST8862
Four figure Latitude: 51.35694263
Four figure longitude: -2.17372181
1:25K map: ST8862
1:10K map: ST86SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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