File:Bronze Age chisel (FindID 794072).jpg

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Bronze Age chisel
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Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Richard Henry, 2016-08-17 12:07:06
Title
Bronze Age chisel
Description
English: A complete late Bronze Age chisel dating to c. 1150-800 BC. The chisel measures 86.44mm in length and weighs 24.94.

The tang measures 7.96mm wide and 5.85mm thick where it joins the body of the chisel, and narrows and thins to 3.64mm wide and 2.94mm thick at the other end. Casting flashes are visible and worn down where it joins the collar.

The collar is oval in cross-section (12.66mm wide 9.17mm thick), with the concave sides of the blade below extending from it and flaring to an expanded curved cutting edge measuring 20.64mm in diameter. The blade measures 34.72mm in length, thickness decreases from 6.21mm at the collar to 1.21mm at the blade edge.

Similar to WILT-5D7742

Read, page 94 no.693
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 1150 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 794072
Old ref: WILT-CDB685
Filename: WILTCDB685.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/579129
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/579129/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/794072
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