Seven Dagger Blades

North Europe, Scandinavia, Nordic Late Neolithic, ca. 2300 - 2100 B.C.

Flint

Length: 10.0 - 21.0 cm

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A group of seven elaborately retouched, lanceolate dagger blades, partially with handle-like end. Originally, an organic material was wrapped around the handle-end or a wooden haft was attached to the blade. Intact.

PROVENANCE

Formerly German priv. coll. J. H., Westfalen, since 1980.

NOTE

Cf. V. Arnold, Spätneolithische Flinttechnologie im Norden, in: H. Floss (Hrsg.) Steinartefakte. Vom Altpaläolithikum bis in die Neuzeit. Tübingen Publications in Prehistory. 2nd edition (Tübingen 2013) 923-930; H. Hesse, Metallzeitliche Silexartefakte, in: H. Floss (ed.) Steinartefakte. Vom Altpaläolithikum bis in die Neuzeit. Tübingen Publications in Prehistory. 2nd ed. (Tübingen 2013) 931-941, esp. 933, fig. 1, nos. 1-2, 939.

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