This category includes double edged tools with a handle. Other names for this category are daggers, and scimitars.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
6788A (none) (none) B16436A [A-D broken in 4 pieces] Dagger. Iron. E.
6788B (none) (none) B16436b [A-D broken in 4 pieces] Dagger. Iron. E.
6788C (none) (none) B16436C [A-D broken in 4 pieces] Dagger. Iron. E.
6788D (none) (none) B16436D [A-D broken in 4 pieces] Dagger. Iron. E.
6878 (none) (none) B16405 Knife blade. Copper. Handle missing. E.
7545 (none) (none) (none) Dagger blade. Copper. Broken in 2 places, tip missing. At one end six nobs, 3 on either side originally intended to fit into the wooden handle which supported the dagger blade. cf. U7549 also pot type XIII found with it.
7592 (none) (none) (none) Knife. Iron. Part of tip and most of handle missing. [drawing 1:2]
7634 (none) (none) (none) Knife. Copper. 4 nobs, 2 on either side of short metal shaft originally intended to fit into corresponding holes in the wooden handle none of which remains. Between the nobs a hole perforated through the shaft probably in order to hold two corresponding nobs in the wooden handle.
7850 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife blade. thick rivets for haft. II. [drawing 1:1]
7862 (none) 1928,1009.287 (none) Copper dagger. The blade had originally a tang fixed by rivets into a wooden handle: tang broken: the handle was decorated with small copper studs driven into the wood so that the heads touched each other: traces of the handle remained and some of the studs were corroded together in position.
7865 (none) 1928,1009.273 (none) Copper knife. Leaf-shaped with slight central rib: short tang with rivets broken off. [drawing].
7871 (none) 1928,1009.290 (none) Copper axe. Fairly heavy metal with curved cutting edge, end bent over for fixing in handle. XI. [drawing]
7872 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Like 7871 but shorter and broader. Bent end broken and mended. XI.
7873 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife. Same type as 7872 but longer. The bent-over end has been broken and mended. Impression of reed matting on one side.
7874 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Similar to 7872 but the bent-over haft end is missing. XI.
7875 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife. Similar to 7872 : bend double in antiquity. XI.
7877 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife? or Axe? The blade is straight-sided and the cutting edge may be at the square end, cf. U.7867 but this is longer and narrower. The other (haft) end is bent over: broken and mended.
7878 (none) (none) (none) Copper dagger. Long leaf-shaped blade secured by 2 (or 3?) rivets.
7879 (none) (none) (none) Copper dagger. Long leaf-shaped blade, probably rivetted but rivets gone.
7929 (none) (none) (none) Dagger. Copper. Triangular blade. Metal shaft has 2 rivets on either side for wooden handle. Top missing, end broken. [drawing 1:5] [type] II
7934 (none) (none) (none) Knife blade. Copper. 4 rivets, 2 on either side of short tang. Broken at top and point missing. [drawing 2:5]
7967 (none) 1928,1009.256 (none) Copper dagger. Straight sided with rectangular end returning to tang wherein 3 rivets. The blade thickened to the centre, but no rib [Type] II
7980 (none) (none) (none) Copper knife. Damaged: the blade has been bent up and cracked, and above this is much corroded and the edges have gone; below the bend well preserved. Point broken but found. Apparently of the usual straight-sided type, but the damage makes it hard to identify.
7988A (none) (none) B17436 [A] Copper knife. Straigh-sided with square shoulders to a short tang in which was one rivet (broken off: point of knife also broken but present). Oxydised onto the knife blade is a [B] copper reticule of normal type II
8023 (none) (none) B17329 Copper knife. Straight-sided. Tang and point both missing and the blade broken across. [type] II

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