DOR-C403E1: Early Bronze Age plano-convex knife.

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Unique ID: DOR-C403E1

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A crude elongate plano-convex knife. Made on a large secondary flake of pale grey flint with off-white mottles. It retains a small area of abraded nodule cortex and there is iron staining along the flake ridges. There is a small bulb of percussion at the proximal end and numerous irregularly spaced waves of percussion on the ventral face. There are several large parallel flaking scars on the dorsal face. There is scalar retouch along both of the long edges and at the distal end. Along one side the retouch is semi abrupt and along the opposite edge the retouch is more invasive and probably produced by pressure flaking.
Date: Early Bronze Age - c. 2350 to 1600 BC
Dimensions: 63 mm x 25 mm x 9 mm
Weight: 17 g

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 2350 BC
Date to: Circa 1600 BC

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 63 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 17 g

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: SCMS 019444

Materials and construction

Primary material: Flint
Manufacture method: Knapped/flaked
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Fovant (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: ST9928
Four figure Latitude: 51.05134542
Four figure longitude: -2.01564251
1:25K map: ST9928
1:10K map: ST92NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Chance find during metal detecting
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

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Recording Institution: DOR
Created: 5 years ago
Updated: 5 years ago

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