[{"id": 41489, "created": "2015-01-21T10:17:19.279210", "project_id": 122, "task_id": 29123, "user_id": 433, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2015-01-21T10:17:19.279232", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"lat": "51.641845", "lon": "-1.9307249999999385", "edge": "", "site": "England[;]Wiltshire[;]Parish - Ashton Keynes[;]On east side of road running north from North End, 100 yards north of spot - level 289, Wilts. 6 inch Ordnance Sheet, in a small enclosure.", "other": "Length: 6 in. = 152.4[;]Weight 1 7/8 oz = 53.16 gms", "width": "", "length": "152.4", "patina": "Brassy in colour, appears to have been cleaned.", "weight": "53.16", "geojson": {"crs": {"type": "name", "properties": {"name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}}, "type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": ["-1.9307249999999385", "51.641845"]}, "properties": {}}, "gridRef": "", "remarks": "Extract: \"Bronze Dagger from Ashton Keynes. This bronze dagger was exhibited by the Rev. M. T. Milling during the Society's recent (1939) visit to the Church, and was most kindly presented by him then and there to the Society's Museum. \"It was found,\" he writes, \"by my clerk when digging a drock at North End, Ashton Keynes, twenty-three years ago. I looked to see at the time if there was anything else of interest in the spot dug, but I found nothing.\" The Society is indebted to Mr. A. D. Passmore for photographing both the dagger and the Roman objects mentioned in the preceding note. The dagger measures 6 ins. in length and 1 5/8 ins. width at the butt. It is in a remarkable state of preservation, the metal being quite uncorroded and showing yellow on one side and dark green on the other. The only injury is that a bit 3/4 in. wide in the centre of the butt which probably contained a third rivet hole is broken off, otherwise the weapon is perfect and the edges actually sharp enough still to cut a pencil with (I have just tried the experiment!). There is a prominent midrib on both sides and the edges are bevelled. A rare peculiarity is that the two rivet holes at the butt are not placed symmetrically. This perhaps rather suggests that it was a halberd blade, but it is too small for this. There is no specimen quite like it in the Society's collection. E.H. Goddard.", "surface": "", "toSearch": "Ashton Keynes, Swindon, Wiltshire SN6, UK", "thickness": "", "collection": "Wiltshire Archaeological Society's Museum at Devizes, B.45", "objectType": "Ogival Midrib Dagger (With Midrib)", "composition": "Bronze", "description": "Good condition.", "rightCorner": "Ogival", "associations": "None", "publications": "Wilts Arch. Mag. XLVI, p. 103-4. - Extract posted below[;]Devizes Museum cat. Part II, 2nd edition, page 70, Fig. 14[;]DM 1159; GC 353", "dateDiscoveryDay": "None", "dateDiscoveryYear": "None", "dateDiscoveryMonth": "None"}}, {"id": 41522, "created": "2015-01-21T13:02:56.707253", "project_id": 122, "task_id": 29123, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2015-01-21T13:02:56.707279", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"lat": "51.641845", "lon": "-1.9307249999999385", "edge": "", "site": "Wilts [;] Parish - Ashton Keynes [;] on east side of road running north from North End, 100 yds north of spot-level 289, Wilts 6 inch Ordnance Street, in a small enclosure.", "other": "Length: 6 in; Weight: 1.7/8 oz [;] seen [;] The extract pasted on the card is transcribed in the Remarks field.", "width": "", "length": "152.4", "patina": "Brassy in colour, appears to have been cleaned", "weight": "53.155", "geojson": {"crs": {"type": "name", "properties": {"name": "urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}}, "type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": ["-1.9307249999999385", "51.641845"]}, "properties": {}}, "gridRef": "64", "remarks": "Bronze Dagger from Ashton Keynes. This bronze dagger was exhibited by the Rev. M.T. Milling during the Society's recent (1932) visit to the Church, and was most kindly presented by him then and there to the Society's Museum. \"It was found,\" he writes, \"by my clerk when digging a drock at North End, Ashton Keynes, twenty-three years ago. I looked to see at the time if there was anything else of interest in the spot dug but found nothing.\" The Society is indebted to M. A.D. Passmore for photographing both the dagger and the Roman objects mentioned in the preceding note. The dagger measures 6ins. in length and 1.5/8ins. in width at the butt. It is in a remarkable state of preservation, the metal being quite uncorroded and showing yellow on one side and dark green on the other. The only injury is that a bit 3/4in. wide in the centre of the butt which probably contained a third rivet hole is broken off, otherwise the weapon is perfect and the edges actually sharp enough still to cut a pencil with (I have just tried the experiment !). There is a prominent midrib on both sides and the edges are bevelled. A rare peculiarity is that the two rivet holes at the butt are not placed symetrically. This perhaps rather suggests that it was a halberd blade, but it is too small for this. There is no specimen quite like it in the Society's collection. E. H. Goddard.", "surface": "", "toSearch": "Ashton Keynes, Swindon, Wiltshire SN6, Royaume-Uni", "thickness": "", "collection": "Wilts Archaeological Society's Museum at Devizes [;] B.45.", "objectType": "Ogival Midrib Dagger (with midrib)", "composition": "Bronze", "description": "Good condition", "rightCorner": "Ogival", "associations": "none", "publications": "Wilts Arch. Mag. XLVI. p. 103-4: extract pasted below [;] Devizes Museum Cat. Part II, 2nd. edition, page 70, Fig. 14 [;] DM 1159 GC 353", "dateDiscoveryDay": "None", "dateDiscoveryYear": "None", "dateDiscoveryMonth": "None"}}]