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© Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID 1251
Pla de les Tenalles
Protohistory and Iberian world

sickle

MCUT 2883

Object type
sickle
Production date
-200 / -100
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
400 x 52 x 20 mm
Description
Iron sickle fragmented into two parts, slightly incomplete. It has a cutting blade with a constant width that describes a rather closed angle relative to the handle. In this last area, the two rivets that fixed the wooden handle to the metal base are preserved, but there are no longer any organic remains. The sickle (also known as flying when the metal blade is not serrated) was one of the main agricultural implements in the Iberian agricultural system based on cereal crops, but this kind of object was used for harvesting various kinds of plants (cereal, grass and straw). In general, it is a kind of tool that was widespread in the Catalan Iberian area between the fourth and second centuries BC. This find corresponds to the site of the Pla de les Tenalles. It appeared during the excavations of House 3 and is dated in the third or second century BC, like another similar example.

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