2-673-526 - © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford/Heritage Images

Solid-hilted dagger, Early Bronze Age (Italy), c2200BC-c1600 BC. Solid hilted dagger with slightly ogival blade with low flat central ribbon; decoration of edges of ribbon by punched dots, of edges of blade and heel by scored parallel lines; cast-on solid hilt, with seven rivets in the arc of the heel; one rivet missing. Dimensions: length: 25.5 cmwidth: 6.1 cm