Razor of bronze

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This bronze razor was found at Adabrock on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in a hoard of tools, weapons, vessel fragments and beads. The hoard was buried between 950 and 750 BC, almost certainly a gift to the gods.

The blade is incomplete. There is a hole, which allowed the razor to be suspended, to show off this prestigious possession.

Bronze razors were used as prestige shaving gear from the second millennium BC onwards.

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• Online ID: 000-100-034-629-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.DQ 217
• Date: Between 950 and 750 BC
  
• Material: Bronze; crescentic; flat
  Blade
  
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• What: Blade
  
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• Where: Scotland, Ross and Cromarty, Lewis, Adabrock
  
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• Description: Crescentic flat bronze blade from Adabrock, Lewis
  
• References:
  • Coles, John M. Scottish late Bronze Age metalwork: typology, distributions and chronology. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 93 (1959-1960), pp 16-134, esp. p 127. 
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