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ANGLO-SAXON KNIFE
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Adam Daubney, 2004-05-06 16:52:16
Title
ANGLO-SAXON KNIFE
Description
English: Iron knife blade and tang. The whittle tang is about 25mm in length. The knife blade has an angled back about 4mm wide; both the front and rear parts of the back are straight. The tip of the blade is missing. The cutting edge is about 52mm in length.
This knife is of Evison's type 5 (Evison 1987, 113) or Ottaway's type A2 (Ottaway 1992, 562-4). It may date from any time from about 575 AD up to the Norman Conquest, or even possibly beyond.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Lincolnshire
Date between 575 and 1250
Accession number
FindID: 66189
Old ref: LIN-B8D083
Filename: LIN1496.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/24594
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/24594
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/66189
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Object location53° 34′ 05.52″ N, 0° 14′ 46.06″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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