Dagger B4658

Photo: Svein Skare © Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, CC BY-SA 4.0

Fragment of double-edged blade, most likely a dagger. It has a marked midrib flanked by two line bundles consisting of three lines. The lines are not well made. The line bundles are concave at the widest end of the fragment, near the missing handle, indicating that this may have been a riveted blade. Length: c. 9.5 cm

Location:
Hogstad (unknown farm), Rogaland

Context:
No information is available. The name Hogstad is written on the blade, but as the object was acquired from an antiques dealer, there is no certain information about where, when or how it was found.

Date:
Early Bronze Age period 3