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KNIFE
Unique ID: DOR-FCCD7E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A copper tanged knife or dagger. The blade and tang are both thin with a rectangular cross section. The tang tapers very slightly into a rounded end. The blade is slightly an irregular pointed oval shape in outline and tapers to a a rounded tip. The missing handle has left a faint trace in the sutface corrosion as an ogival arc on the hilt.
Date: Early Bronze Age - c. 2300 - 2500 BC - Chalcolithic
Dimensions: 47.14 mm x 11.31 mm x 5.62 mm
Weight: 8.67 g
Similar objects are recorded in HESH-7C7854, LANCUM-3BEC10, NCL-093B77, SUR-38BFA5. Peter Reavill comments that this example takes the national corpus to around 44 and that this is the fifth example on the PAS database.
Dot Boughton notes in her record for LANCUM-3BEC10 - Most examples occur in early Beaker 'classic' grave assemblages associated with low-carinated Beakers, wrist guards, etc.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: National importance
Class: Tanged
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 2500 BC
Date to: Circa 2300 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 93.02 mm
Width: 21.09 mm
Thickness: 1.37 mm
Weight: 8.93 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 016803
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: East Dorset (District)
To be known as: East Dorset
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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