Object: Knife
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: destined for: LINCOLN MUSEUM,with excavator 1978
Site: LINCOLNSHIRE,WEST ASHBY,FURZEHILLS SAND QUARRY,BARROW,Circumstances: Excavated 1977, N. Lincs. Unit; found asociated with cremation and collared urn during excavation of a barrow.
Discovery context: excavated,barrow
Parish: Furzehills
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TF 2503 7262
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): EL 97.3
Width (mm): W bl. 33.5
Thickness (mm): T bl. ~ 3.8; T bl. + organic remains 5.5; B tang sides 2.0
Surface: matt yellow green sur.; much covered either by textured corrosion products, or by adhering organic material - all brighter greens,Attached Material: numerous traces of organic material on one face  - fibres aligned diagonally - possibly leather; v. small traces on tang - possibly wood.
Other: Modern card, fields do not match data entry template
Associations: Context 2a. GRAVE(S) (0)
Description: Typology: rectangular-sectioned tang with v. squared sides and v. sl. emphasised corners; midrib of blade flat; edge-bevels v. asymmetrical - right hand one broader on either face; striations along bl. almost certainly grmks; c.bevs. 'hollow-ground',Condition: tang end bent over - damage or deliberate? prob. v. little, if any, of it broken off; nicks into bl. edge all ancient dam. or corrosion flaking; rest of edge v. sharp. Treated AML - Lab. no. 777949
Publications: Bibliog.: Fields, N. forthcoming