Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2573
Site: England,Devon,Crediton,1898
Parish: Crediton
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 584
Width (mm): 64
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 459.8
Patina: Dirty green patina.
Associations: Found with another and two palstaves (Nos. 2571-4).
Description: Straight-sided blade with flat midrib, widening at base into broad unperforated butt.
Publications: E.T. Leeds, Antiquity II, 351,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S.,1962, No. 5, p.95, 59
Remarks: Trump's II Chatteris