Large Iron Knife from Kuffarn (NHMW-Prae 61.665)

3D Model

3D scan of a large iron knife from the Early Iron Age (ca. 450−400 BC). The knife was found in 1896 in Kuffarn in the Traisen Valley (Lower Austria) as part of the inventory of the inhumation grave No. 3 of a warrior of the Early La Tène culture.

The large iron knife can be found in Hall 13 of the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Object: Large iron knife from the Kuffarn graveyard

Inventory number: NHMW-Prae 61.665

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna, Prehistory Department, Iron Age Collection (curator: Georg Tiefengraber)

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Scanned and edited by Viola Winkler (NHMW)

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