Denmark
Scandinavia
Flint
10 1/2 inches long (26.7 cm), on a custom stand
Provenance: Scott Duggleby, Kerrville, Texas
A lanceolate dagger worked from a single blade of grey flint, tapering from a thickened flaked handle at one end to a sharp point at the other. Both faces are covered in invasive pressure flaking, with regular parallel scars running from the edges toward the midline. Close secondary retouch follows the full length of both edges.
Daggers of this form were made in Denmark and southern Scandinavia during the Late Neolithic, a period when Scandinavian knappers worked flint to an exacting technical standard. The type is understood as a prestige weapon and status object, produced in imitation of the metal daggers then circulating in central Europe. The piece is intact and unbroken, with an even surface gloss across both faces.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
Denmark
Scandinavia
Flint
10 1/2 inches long (26.7 cm), on a custom stand
Provenance: Scott Duggleby, Kerrville, Texas
A lanceolate dagger worked from a single blade of grey flint, tapering from a thickened flaked handle at one end to a sharp point at the other. Both faces are covered in invasive pressure flaking, with regular parallel scars running from the edges toward the midline. Close secondary retouch follows the full length of both edges.
Daggers of this form were made in Denmark and southern Scandinavia during the Late Neolithic, a period when Scandinavian knappers worked flint to an exacting technical standard. The type is understood as a prestige weapon and status object, produced in imitation of the metal daggers then circulating in central Europe. The piece is intact and unbroken, with an even surface gloss across both faces.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
