Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 188 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Kings Co.,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 259
Width (mm): blade 24; hilt 43, 32.5
Thickness (mm): blade 7
Weight (g): 315
Patina: Brown patina - dust colour about the rivet holes - 1 patch of green.
Surface: Fairly smooth
Description: "Fish Tail" hilt plate. 9 rivet holes, one of which is broken into. The high convex faces of the blade run into the hilt plate like a tongue. Faint bevel round cutting edge. Cutting edge is very blunt.