Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Society of Antiquaries Collection, B.21,   (presented 1860 by Sudlow Roots, Esq., from the collection,of his father, William Roots - No. 12.)
Site: GREATER LONDON,KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES,CHELSEA WATERWORKS
Discovery context: river
District: Kingston upon Thames
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 17,67
Year of discovery: 1855
Length (mm): 364
Patina: v. dark brown p.
Surface: much flaked etc. to dull gold sur.
Other: Circumstances: "found in digging for the Chelsea Waterworks,at Kingston, close to the Thames, in the blue,clay, 10 ft. deep, June 1855". (a),  The side would in fact lie within Long Ditton, Survey; ordnance survey records state: "over,TQ 176 675".,  Labels/Markings: White ink inset: 'B21', loose tag label - Root's original,loose hand-painted label.,  SN Feb. 79
Description: Dimensions: W sh 39.5; max T 5.0;,   Typology: sub-rect. butt with one asym. corner not product of dam., although poss.,re-worked in ant.; flattened midrib becoming more rounded lower on bl.,   Manufacture: markedlyconcave e. bev.; bevels around parts of rivet holes - poss. cast?,   Condition: 1 rivet hole may never have been intact, but if so, broken in ant.; bl. e's.,sharp - increased by flaking along [...]ch; file marks over much of sur. - v. prob.,modern; also deeper cut across on butt face, biting gold.
Publications: a) P.S.A.2 I, B59-61, 83 no. 12.,   b) Phillips, 1967, 26