Dagger
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.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 3/2004/2/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Wessex Archaeology
- Material
- chert
- Common Name
- dagger
- Simple Name
- dagger
- Period Classification
- Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
