Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Flat Knife Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum, G.106,T93446,Bateman Collection
Site: England,Derbyshire,Kerslow,Youlgreave,Middleton and Smerril,In a barrow called Kerslow
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Kerslow
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1848
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 34.5
Thickness (mm): 2.5
Weight (g): 50
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: 34.5mm; 31mm; 19mm,Thickness: average 2.5mm
Associations: Six crescent shaped pieces of bone, each with 2 perforations. Basalt Hammer and Iron knife, and flint implements. The Barrow was first opened in 1821, but in 1848 several more interments were found.
Description: Three rivets.
Publications: W. Bateman's "Vestiges", pp. 28-30,T. Bateman, Sheffield Museum Catalogue, pp. 11-12.,T. Bateman, Ten Years Digging, p. 20.