Record ID: NMGW-5B6156
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Core rejuvenation blade, most likely to be of Neolithic date (c. 4000-2500BC). Made of flint. Length = 79.0mm; width = 28.0mm; thickness – 15.0mm; weight = 25.3g. The blade is struck from a blade core with the intention to refresh the striking platform of the core to enable further blades to be removed from it. Blades from such a core could have been retouched and made into scrapers, knives, or other tools.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-83CC4B
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bridgend
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Late Bronze Age cast copper alloy blade, possibly of Ewart Park type, dating from c. 1000 to 800 BC. The blade fragment has a surviving length of 64.39mm, with a surviving width of 33.23mm across the top break, and 26.18mm across the lower break. It is broadly trapezoid in plan and is lenticular in cross-section. On one blade face there is evidence of a midrib approximately 12.0mm wide. The blade edges are heavily eroded leaving no original surface. The break surface at the wider end of the fragment is worn with green corrosion, suggestive of the blade being possibly b…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-7264F5
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary cast copper alloy sword blade fragment, probably of Late Bronze Age date (c.1150-750 BC), possibly of Wilburton or Ewart Park metalworking industry of Needham’s (1991) Periods 4-5, dated 1150-750 BC. The fragment is rectangular in plan and lenticular in section with an overall surviving length of 59.4mm. The fragment has straight transverse breaks on each end and there is a slight bend in the length , suggesting deliberate breakage prior to deposition (‘ritually killed’). The blade has a shallow raised central midrib c.13.5mm wide on both faces (overall object dept…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-61F02D
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy blade, probably a knife or razor of Late Bronze Age date. The cutting edge of the blade is very slightly concave in plan with rounded ends that slope from a slightly convex top edge. The overall length is 69.2mm and max width is 25.4mm. An irrelgular long notch (11.8mm long by 3.5mm thick) along the top edge may be the point at which a tang or hafted handle had attached, but is now missing in old damage. The notch is off-centre measuring 32.2mm from one end, 39.2mm from the other. (A similar notch is seen on NMGW-B18276). The blade is thickest at the ce…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2022
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-598318
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy blade fragment, probably a Bronze Age reworked blade, possibly of Middle Bronze Age date The weapon is fragmentary, represented by the lower part of the hilt and the top of the blade (with a surviving length of 67.1mm and a weight of 11.9g). The hilt has broken through a rivet-hole, positioned off-centre (with a diameter of 4.2mm). The hilt has a lenticular section at the break (2.0mm thick at the break and 3.2mm thick at the shoulders), becoming lozengic at the shoulders. The sides of the hilt are moderately straight and diverge slightly towards the shoulders (with …
Created on: Monday 18th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-8CDC4D
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert blade fragment dating to the Later Mesolithic. The fragment is from the distal end of the blade.
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-8C2E59
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A core rejuvenation blade core dating to the Later Mesolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-8B7C5E
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A chert truncated blade dating to the Later Mesolithic.
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-8ACBC7
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Swansea
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two flint blades dating to the Later Mesolithic
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2020
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Record ID: NMGW-872F95
Object type: BLADE
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bronze Age bronze blade. The blade is incomplete and fragmentary, in two pieces (the upper fragment has a length and weight of 75.2mm and 25.2g respectively, the lower part is similarly 39.6mm and 8.5g, with a combined dimensions of 110.9mm and 33.7g). The butt or hilt is missing with no evidence for rivet holes or a tang but the top of the blade does not appear to be widening (with a width of 17.2mm). The blade has a prominent rounded midrib of consistent width and thickness (of 4.0mm width and 4.0mm thick). The original blade edges have been lost but the surviving edge is compa…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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