Object: Razor
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2711.
Site: England,Berkshire,Wallingford,1871
Parish: Wallingford
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 98
Width (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 1
Weight (g): 18
Patina: Mottled brown patina.
Other: Thickness: .05, tang .02mm,Weight: 18.18 gms
Associations: Small hoard consisting of socketed celt, knife, and gouge, tanged chisel, and thin razor, Nos. 2707-11.
Description: V-notch at top with hole below. Flat triple-ribbed midrib. Square-ended tang.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., pp. 128, 167, 206, 219 (Fig. 269), 457, 462, 466, Hoard No. 60,Proc. Soc. Antiq. IV (2), 303,Crawford, Antiq. Journ. II, 29,Leeds, Antiquity II, 352.,C.M. Piggott, P.P.S. N.S., Vol. XII, 1946, No. 5, p. 138.