Object: Awl
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: On loan to Gloucester City Museum from Forest of Dean Local History Society,L.90
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Near Chepstow,Tidenham Chase Round Barrow,Excavated by C. Scott-Garrett, 1951-2.,Found in the central cist with cremated human bones.
Discovery context: excavated,barrow
Parish: Tidenham Chase
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1951
Length (mm): 56
Width (mm): 2
Thickness (mm): 2
Other: AG Hunter
Associations: Dagger bronze; flat tabular shale amulet with a suspension-hole; three fossil encrinoid beads.
Description: To judge from wear on the head, the tang is virtually complete.