Dagger, Lockerbie
The dagger consists of a flat copper alloy blade; three plug
rivets that had been used to fix the hilt to the blade; fragments
of a ribbed copper alloy hiltband (a decorative binding around the
pommel) and traces of its horn hilt and animal hide sheath.
Radio-carbon dating of the sheath material indicates that it
date to between 2140-1910BC. Comparison with other similar daggers
and analysis of the metal content suggests that the dagger was made
inEnglandorWales.
It was found in a burial pit, along with a barbed and tanged
arrowhead. No human remains were identified in the acidic soil, but
a layer of darker material towards the southern end of the pit may
have been a 'body shadow'.
Dagger graves such as this are usually those of high-status
males of a relatively advanced age.
Object no :
DMTT047a-c
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Accession number :
ANMMS 2012.1.9
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