Object: Razor
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Salisbury Museum
Site: England,Wilts,Amesbury (near),Earls Farm Down,Barrow 71 (Goddard's List, Wilts. Arch. Mag. XXXVIII, 170)
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Amesbury
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 70
Width (mm): 39, base of tang 16
Patina: warty in places; the rest of the surface unpatinated.
Composition: For ornament cf IB.
Associations: Cremation in handled urn, inverted; base of the urn 6" B.G.L. 6'0" N.E. centre on top of the barrow (R.S. Newall)
Description: Edges of the blade very thin. Hole in tang countersunk one side only. Ornament, long oval hammer marks.
Publications: C.M. Piggott, P.P.S. Vol. XII, 1946 No.5 p.137