dagger;
sheath
- Museum number
- 1853,0324.1
- Description
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Copper alloy dagger and sheath. The top is humped, the front is plain but has a ridge along each edge and a slight ridge along the centre. The terminal of the chape is crescentic with a delicate moulding at the tip and a pair of knobs on either side at the top. From these knobs, a strip bent round each edge leads to another moulding with a pear-shaped knob on either side in front, joined front and back by a transverse strip. What is left of the back plate is of iron with a double suspension loop.
- Production date
- 650 BC - 450 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 311 millimetres
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Weight: 303 grammes (including mount)
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Thickness: 21.80 millimetres (max, including mount)
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Width: 31 millimetres (chape, max)
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Width: 38.50 millimetres (top of sheath)
- Curator's comments
- Short iron daggers kept in sheaths appeared during the Hallstatt D period, after around 600 BC.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc10)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980, London, BM, Celtic Antiquities from Gaul
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1853,0324.1