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AN1836 p.122.41

Object types: dagger

Description: ogival dagger with straight heel

Materials: copper alloy

Dimensions: 17.272 cm x 5.588 cm (at handle) [length x diameter]

Date: Early Bronze Age (Britain) (c. 2500 - 1500 cal.BC)

Period: Bronze Age (Britain) (c. 2500 - c. 800 cal. BC)

Associated Places: Ashdown Park, Oxfordshire, England (find spot)

Acquisition: Presented by Rev. H. Jenkins, 1830.

Reference: 

Sabine Gerloff, The Early Bronze Age daggers in Great Britain and a reconsideration of the Wessex Culture, Pr?historische Bronzefunde 6/2 (Munich: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1975)