In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool ...

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This is the needle-pointed marking tool for laying out measurements.The scratch can be made deep enough to actually be the start of the cut in rougher work, but a knife-edged tool is better for finer ...

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