ACE FISH TAILED DAGGER LIGHTER STRIKER 124mm DANISH STONE AGE NEOLITHIC FLINT for Sale

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ACE FISH TAILED DAGGER LIGHTER STRIKER 124mm DANISH STONE AGE NEOLITHIC FLINT For Sale

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ACE FISH TAILED DAGGER LIGHTER STRIKER 124mm DANISH STONE AGE NEOLITHIC FLINT:
$399.00

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EUROPEAN PREHISTORIC ARTIFACTS
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FISH TAILED DAGGER
USED AS A STRIKE A LIGHT - LIGHTER !!!
Fish-Tailed Daggers include the finest examples of flint shapingand flaking. There can be no question but that they were fashioned after the pattern of the bronze daggers, the pommel of the latterbeing imitated in the outcurving corners of the hilt. Like thebronze prototype some of the daggers have pronounced shoulders.The later type with the undulating profile is probably the resultof the influence of the frequently sharpened dagger whose shoulders have disappeared under repeated resharpening. The majority of thesedaggers are flaked to a seam along the angles of the hilt, the specimens with a two-sided cross-section having this seam alongboth edges of the hilt, those with triangular cross-section often onlyhaving a vertical seam down the centre of the front of the hilt,though the best specimens have a seam also along the other two edges.Those with a diamond-shaped cross-section have the seam down the centreof both sides.
This very rare speciem is called \"Fish-Tailed Dagger type V\" withsmooth transition from blade to hilt which is two-sided,belonging to the later part of the Dagger Culture 2400-1800 BC.
The last period of the Stone Age, 2400-1800 BC, known as the Dagger period, coincided with the early Bronze Age in the British Isles and Central Europe. Weapons and tools made of copper and bronze were introduced and provided a challenge for those who made flint tools. The result can be seen in the excellent examples of imitations in flint of foreign bronze daggers. At the end of the period, the production of metal implements finally gained a foothold, and there is evidence of an emerging new social stratification. This is reflected in finds from settlements with both small and much larger long houses. Burial customs varied from simple interments below ground or in passage graves, to burials in stone cists or log coffins covered with large mounds.
Provenance is an old collection.
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