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RAPIER
Unique ID: BERK-3E8051
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of a copper-alloy cast blade, possibly from a rapier. The blade point is Bronze Age in date, though not enough of the artefact remains to more precisely date it to within this period. The item is an elongated triangular shape, with a narrowed end. There is a central midrib.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1500 BC
Date to: Circa AD 800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33 mm
Width: 13.5 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 7.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 23rd December 2017
Rally details.
This object was found at Metal Detectives Xmas Dig 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP3702
Four figure Latitude: 51.71551524
Four figure longitude: -1.46584068
1:25K map: SP3702
1:10K map: SP30SE
Grid reference source: Recorded at a rally
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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