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KNIFE
Unique ID: FAKL-E7D378
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Iron blade from an Early Medieval, Anglo-Saxon, whittle tanged knife. The blade has a wedge-shaped section on which the tang is missing. The blade is broken, corroded and damaged but it is possible to place it in Drinkall and Foreman's Type A1, a type that had a long period of use (Drinkall and Foreman, 1998, 279-81).
Length 80.8mm (surviving), Width 12.8mm, Thickness 3.9mm, Mass 10.92g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 670
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 71.2 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 11.48 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 430
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: North Kesteven
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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