Object: Razor
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum  1937.  12-15. 2
Site: England, Somenet, Priddy * See description
Parish: Priddy
County: Somerset
Country: England
Grid reference: ST, 52, 51
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): -
Width (mm): -
Weight (g): 12
Patina: even dark brown patina, which becomes quite thin on one side
Surface: quite smooth
Other: Handwriting is hard to read
Description: * continued from "Site":  For only information available, see B.M. Register.  It is an old B.M. acquisition, unregistered until 1937.  12-15, when it was found in a box with part of a stone axhammer, labeled “Priddy mines”; this razor may be from the same locality or a similar […] in Evans p 216 fig 266, also from Priddy., Description: This oval-shaped blade with slight flat midrib; edges of blade thin, slightly chipped and in places slightly tamed [?] over.  Midrib extends into a tang which has a very slight taper, and the extremity of which has a slight bend.
Publications: J.J. Butler, Univ of London Inst. Arch 12th Ann. [...] 1956.  Razors, Vons + the Brt, MBA. p. 52