Wooden dagger hilt with iron tang

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden dagger hilt with iron tang
Long description: Small round wooden ?dagger hilt with a narrow iron tang in it. [SM 11/01/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: By 1878 Oct
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Iron Metal, Process Turned, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions: Thick: max 24 mm, Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 79 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.121.26 PR no.: 133/ 8386
Research and responses: It is possible that this object is linked to 1884.121.6 as suggested by the green book entry which is matched to both objects [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 (copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe) [JC]

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