Dagger
- Description
- The shape of this flint dagger may be echoing that of early copper daggers. It would have taken considerable skill to make such a tool. It would have taken about twelve hours and needed the removal of at least 3,000 chips of flint to make it.
- Accession Loan No.
- 3/2004/2/2
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- dagger
- Simple Name
- dagger
- Dimensions
- whole length 160 mm; whole width 107 mm; whole TH 46 mm
- Period Classification
- Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- chert
- Collector / Excavator
- Wessex Archaeology
- Collection Site Name
- A30 excavation (Long Range)
- Collection Town
- Ottery St Mary
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe