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The narrow triangular leaf-shaped blade terminates in a grip of lentoid section with a fishtail butt. The rough greyish flint is unpolished. The edges of the handle show a fine zigzag 'stitching' pattern, which is repeated as a line down the length of one side.
The transition from a Neolithic to a Bronze Age culture was not a sudden and instantaneous pan-European process. In Scandinavia and other areas where ore was limited the passage was slower, and long after bronze had appeared in other areas the use of flint continued, forms often based on metal prototypes as in this example. Danish. c. 2000 BC Cf. For an example in Norwich, see Steven Hooper, (Ed), 'Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Vol. III, Precolumbian, Asian, Egyptian and European Antiquities', Yale 1997, p. 413-414 Ex. private collection Denmark |
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