Dagger (B4299), here photographed together with flint dagger B5423. The shoulder is marked as a crescent-shaped border. The hem has an oval cross-section. The blade is somewhat damaged and the tip is broken. The end knob is square and has a round knob in the centre, this is somewhat damaged. The dagger is now dark green and heavily corroded. L 21 cm W 3.3 cm. Weight: 156 g. Photo: Svein Skare © University Museum in Bergen, CC BY-SA 4.0

Context: Found in a cairn north of the island of Huglo on the farm Nordhuglo in 1885. The cairn was built on and around a natural rock and was 18-19 m in diameter and about 2 m high. A cist in the mound measured L 2.0 m W 0.4 m D 0.75 m. The cist was built in a natural pit in the rock and covered with two slabs. The dagger and a jaw bone were found inside, and the dagger was placed on the left side of where the body had lain. The jaw is lost and the coffin was destroyed in 1959. The cairn was not excavated by an archaeologist.

Date:
The dagger is similar to daggers dated to the Early Bronze Age, period 2.

Location:
Nordhuglo (gnr. 3/1), Huglo, Stord, Hordaland