Ring knife (bronze)
A bronze ringed single blade knife with a thicked convex head slightly lowered to the end of the blade. The tip is blunted and smoothly bent up. The handle is double-sided convex, divided from the blade by the pointed spike. The handle is also ornamented from two sides with three short transverse lines-rollers and one median longitudinal roller.
Manufacturing technique
Casting
Storage location
The Museum of Buryat History named after Khangalov M.N.Inventory number
17943Size
Length - 333,37 mm
Width (point area) - 29,05 mm
Thickness (head) - 9,45 mm
Outer diameter of the ring - 27,95 mm
Inner diameter of the ring - 18,43 mm
Material
BronzeDating
VII-VI cent. BCCulture
Karasuk - earlier TagarThe author of the excavations
Fortuitous find (from Mansurov A.T.)1997
Publications
Grishin YU.S. Pamyatniki neolita, bronzovogo i rannego zheleznogo vekov lesostepnogo Zabajkal'ya. M.: Nauka, 1981, 204 S.
