This category includes pointed objects used for piercing leather, or wood. It ranges from 50-150mm in length.

Objects: Awl/Drill/Piercers Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
10332 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bodkin Broken in 4 pieces Very fine eye. Found over forehead.
10342 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bodkin Very thin in section Badly broken Type__
10467 (none) (none) (none) Copper drill (?) Square in section, thickened to head which has been let into a wooden handle.
11431 (none) (none) (none) Copper Drill. Square section running to a point: tang for insertion in a handle.
11484D 30-12-354 (none) (none) Copper tools. A group. (A) Mirror (?) [drawing] (B) Leaf-shaped knife; [drawing] (C) a short knife; [drawing] (D) [D-E] Two drills (?) one 005 long plus tang, one 003 long plus tang.
11484E (none) (none) (none) Copper tools. A group. (A) Mirror (?) [drawing] (B) Leaf-shaped knife; [drawing] (C) a short knife; [drawing] (D) [D-E] Two drills (?) one 005 long plus tang, one 003 long plus tang.
11494C (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper tool (?). With long slender handle and flat blade rather like a trowel. To this adhering, [B] a copper chisel, [C] a copper drill, and [D] a second drill of about the same size. [drawing]
11494D (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper tool (?). With long slender handle and flat blade rather like a trowel. To this adhering, [B] a copper chisel, [C] a copper drill, and [D] a second drill of about the same size. [drawing]
11947B (none) (none) (none) Copper Tools. (A) Flat trowel-shaped blade with long handle. [Drawing] (B-C) with this two awls (D) Square whetstone with hole in one corner.
11947C (none) (none) (none) Copper Tools. (A) Flat trowel-shaped blade with long handle. [Drawing] (B-C) with this two awls (D) Square whetstone with hole in one corner.
12683 (none) 1929,1017.587 (none) Copper steelyard [leg of a stool has been crossed out]. Top missing? Square in section. [drawing 1:5]
14249 (none) 1930,1213.35 (none) Copper awl. Traces of wooden haft. [drawing]
16405 (none) (none) (none) Stone Borer. For hollowing out stone bowls. The bottom is rough, as if it had never touched the stone, probably a small circular hole was first drilled so as to guide the bigger borer(?). [drawing]
16739P 31-43-299 (none) (none) Flint tools and weapons. Miniature. All Slightly convex. (A) Serrated edges. [drawing 1:1] (B) [drawing 1:1] (C) Finely serrated edges. [drawing 1:1] (D) Same type as A. (E) Same type as A. (F) Same type as A. (G) Same type as A. Frag. (H) Same type as C. (I) Same type as C. (J) Same type as C. (K) Same type as C. (L) Same type as A. (M) Arrowhead [drawing] (N) Frag. Arrowhead [drawing] (O) Triangular tool. (P) Borer. [drawing] (Q) Arrowhead. Same type as M. (R) Triangular tool. [drawing] (S) Borer. [drawing] (T) Black flint. [drawing 1:1] (U) Arrowhead - flint. [drawing 1:1] (V) Same as A. Dark flint. (W) Adze shaped. [drawing 1:1]
16739S (none) 1931,1010.142 (none) Flint tools and weapons. Miniature. All Slightly convex. (A) Serrated edges. [drawing 1:1] (B) [drawing 1:1] (C) Finely serrated edges. [drawing 1:1] (D) Same type as A. (E) Same type as A. (F) Same type as A. (G) Same type as A. Frag. (H) Same type as C. (I) Same type as C. (J) Same type as C. (K) Same type as C. (L) Same type as A. (M) Arrowhead [drawing] (N) Frag. Arrowhead [drawing] (O) Triangular tool. (P) Borer. [drawing] (Q) Arrowhead. Same type as M. (R) Triangular tool. [drawing] (S) Borer. [drawing] (T) Black flint. [drawing 1:1] (U) Arrowhead - flint. [drawing 1:1] (V) Same as A. Dark flint. (W) Adze shaped. [drawing 1:1]
17356 31-43-536 (none) (none) Bodkin. Copper. Circular in section.
17667 (none) (none) (none) Boring instrument. Copper. Square shaft with narrowed rounded top for fitting in handle. [drawing]
17689 32-40-143 (none) (none) Obsidian flake. [drawing 1:1]
18196 (none) (none) (none) Borer. Bone. Sharpened at both ends. Section roughly circular.
18197 (none) (none) (none) Borer. Bone. Pointed at both ends, but one end chipped. Section roughly circular.
18477 (none) (none) (none) Bone piercer. Mounted inside original bitumen handle. [drawing]
18903D (none) (none) (none) Copper group: (A) Chisel. Type 2a (B) Chisel. Type 4a. (C) Saw (the tip missing) (D) Awl (broken). (E) Bowl, hemispherical; cracked and slightly crushed.
19437A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Copper bodkins (2). Type (needles) royal cemetery Pp. 231
19437B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Copper bodkins (2). Type (needles) royal cemetery Pp. 231
410 (none) (none) (none) Bronze drill? Shaft square in section, point broken: butt end broadened out but now shapeless. TTB1-34
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