Dagger and wooden shaft B4716

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

Blade of a dagger and fragments of a wooden shaft. The sides are chipped and damaged, the tip is broken. It is a flat tang with rivet holes and possibly flanges, so the dagger may have been flanged. The blade has a marked midrib. There are remnants of a green patina, the blade is corroded. According to the original catalogue, the wooden hilt was semicircular, probably similar to Montelius Minnen fig. 1006. Length: c.25 cm

Location:
Hodnes, Bore, Klepp, Rogaland

Context:
Found in a mound at Hodnes, no information about the grave.

Date:
Early Bronze Age period 3