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The Late Bronze Age Razors of the British Isles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

C. M. Piggott
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Although a large number of bronze ‘razors’ have been found in these islands, the literature concerning them is very scattered, and there has been no attempt to synthesize the information concerning them. There are frequent references to the so-called ‘plantain’ (our Class I) form or to the ‘maple-leaf’ (Class II) examples with their suggested connection with Siculan razors, but there has been no detailed analysis of their chronological and cultural positions in the British Late Bronze Age. This paper attempts such a classification of the razors on a typological and cultural basis so that they can be fitted with greater accuracy intq their place in Late Bronze chronology.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 12 , 1946 , pp. 121 - 141
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1946

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