Bronze Age

[celticspikey]

At last , out yesterday and my first signal was this little dagger blade, its the most complete piece from this site so well pleased, second signal was the larger brooch. Thanks for looking.

[dingdong]

Great finds again CS,love the blade,just GREAT!!!👍

[wagis]

Well done some very nice finds there

[wittsy1]

Excellent, love the blade and the coin in bottom pic.

[marknewbury1]

Excellent stuff well done

[Neil]

That dagger blade is a thing of beauty.

I'd be tempted to add a handle and try and recreate its full original appearance for display.

Quality finds sir. I tip my hat to you.

Cheers
Neil

[celticspikey]

Thanks guys, and Neil I just mite try to make handle good suggestion.

[Dryland]

Great finds Paul, that dagger blade looks exactly like the one that the wife constantly sticks in my back, please don't make her another handle

[Chef Geoff]

Lovely finds again Paul it looks like a Wessex 1 dagger and what always amazes me is that the dagger would have been older to the Romans than those coins are to us and just goes to show how the requirements for a good place to live haven't changed through time

[celticspikey]

Great finds Paul, that dagger blade looks exactly like the one that the wife constantly sticks in my back, please don't make her another handle

Mmm good point ( no pun intended) 

[troutmasterfunk]

Very sharp reply... Lol

[celticspikey]

Lovely finds again Paul it looks like a Wessex 1 dagger and what always amazes me is that the dagger would have been older to the Romans than those coins are to us and just goes to show how the requirements for a good place to live haven't changed through time

Thats a good point there Geoff, what date would you put the blade at and would I be correct in thinking it would off had a wooden handle ? I know many had a bronze handle but I assume this one never or it may well have still been attached.  

[Chef Geoff]

It does look like a Wessex 1 culture type as most of those are quite small if so then you're really back at the time of the Beaker people in the early Bronze Age 2500-2000 BC, difficult to say if all the hilts were the same but those that have survived, mainly from the bogs of Ireland and the Netherlands like the one below, have been horn  .

[celticspikey]

It does look like a Wessex 1 culture type as most of those are quite small if so then you're really back at the time of the Beaker people in the early Bronze Age 2500-2000 BC, difficult to say if all the hilts were the same but those that have survived, mainly from the bogs of Ireland and the Netherlands like the one below, have been horn with either a presumed wooden or bone core.

intersting Geoff thanks for the link 

[Chainsaw Bampy]

nice finds paul.