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CHISEL
Unique ID: LANCUM-8A0D61
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Possibly an incomplete mid to late Bronze Age tang off a chisel or awl, probably dating from the Ewart Park phase, c 1150- 800BC. The length is 54mm, the width is 12mm thickness 8mm and the weight 14.64g. Tanged chisels, which date from c. 1150-850 BC, are known from several hoards and as isolated finds. Several tanged chisels, or elements of them, are recorded on this database (for example, see BH-49EAD8). Tanged chisels and awls have few diagnostic features and change little through time, making their dating and identification more difficult and their dating is further hampered by a lack of associated datable artefacts within hoards but tend to date to the Late Bronze Age, c. 1250-800BC, but maybe much later. Similar to SUR-435CC1 and ESS-159732.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Exactly 1150 BC
Date to: Circa 800 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 14.64 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st February 2018 - Thursday 1st February 2018
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Sefton (Metropolitan District)
District: Sefton (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Ince Blundell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SD3203
Four figure Latitude: 53.51925344
Four figure longitude: -3.02705851
1:25K map: SD3203
1:10K map: SD30SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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