Record ID: DEV-603F42
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable flint knife of probable neolithic date, c.4,000-2,400BC. Worked from a tertiary blade of pale grey, slightly translucent flint,with some iron staining on the ridge scars, missing its distal end to a natural break and with the proximal end worked away. Very diffuse conchoidal ripples present on the ventral face, and with a single blade-like removal on the dorsal face, again with extremely diffuse conchoidal ripples. Either lateral edge of the dorsal face exhibits long, semi-abrupt, scalar retouch. A posible notch has been worked into the right lateral edge at the…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2018
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Record ID: DEV-D00C64
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy composite knife terminal, probably dating to c. AD 1400-1600. The object comprises of a single piece of copper alloy sheet folded around to meet at a soldered join, although it has now broken to the left of this, creating a hollow, sub-rectangular body, with a slightly flared lip at the top edge. A probable cap, originally closing the terminal, has been lost. The sides of the terminal are faceted, creating a hexagonal cross section and with each longitudinal face bearing engraved decoration. The two flanking facets on each side are decorated wi…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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Record ID: DEV-7F064E
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Neolithic flint knife, probably dating to c. 4000-2400BC. A worked tertiary blade with the striking platform surviving at the proximal end, a relatively diffuse bulb of percussion has been further thinned by retouch. In plan the blade is an elongated sub-oval, with a broadly plano-convex cross section. The dorsal face is extensively worked, featuring covering, semi-abrupt, sub-parallel/scalar retouch, with a small area of abrupt, sub-parallel retouch on the centre of the right mesal edge. There is long, low-angle, sub-parallel/stepped retouch at the proximal end, probably thinning t…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2018
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Record ID: DEV-D32CFB
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper-alloy knife terminal or end-cap from a scale-tang knife, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1650. The cap is D-shaped in plan with a sub-rectangular/sub-oval cross section, a transverse rectangular slot is cut into the base which still holds a large, sub-rectangular fragment of the iron tang. The cap is decorated with a series of incised grooves radiating out from the centre. Dimensions: Maximum length 23.5mm, not including the tang 12.4mm; width 15.9mm, of tang 12.6mm; thickness 9.2mm; weight 7.19g. Read (2001: 88-89) illustrates a number of knife caps of the …
Created on: Monday 4th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
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