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© Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID 1253
Pla de les Tenalles
Protohistory and Iberian world

knife with a low point

MCUT 2882

Object type
blade
Production date
-300 / -200
Fabric
Iberian metallurgy
Museum
Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Culture
Protohistory and Iberian world
Discovery location
Pla de les Tenalles
Materials
iron
Township
Granyanella (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, La Segarra)
Technique
forging
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
117 x 26 x 5 mm
Description
Slightly incomplete iron knife (lacking both ends). The back of the blade is curved downward toward the end zone while the handle includes two rivets as fastening system for the handle (which, being organic matter, has not survived). This object comes from the site of the Pla de les Tenalles and is dated in the third century BC, but its morphology corresponds to a long tradition that began in the early Iron Age. It is multifunctional equipment that could have served for personal or domestic use or even in agricultural work as occasionally it might also be used to prune and graft.

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