Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum 1921.1.1,Obtained Feb. 1921 from Mr. E. Seward, 12 Victoria Terrace, Weymouth.
Site: England,Dorset,Clifton Maybank, near,"Found in the fissure of a quarry, filled with yellow sand of the locality, at a depth of 12 feet from the surface. Quarry near Clifton Maybank." (a),"It was found in a fissure...(which appeared to have expanded into a small cavern) in the inferior solite, the said cavern having been filled in its lower part with the yellow sand of the locality, beneath which at a depth of about 12 feet from the surface the rapier was found....There was no other object connected with it when it was found." (b)
Parish: Clifton Maybank
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: c. ST 57 13
Year of discovery: NA
Associations: 8a. Single Find
Publications: a) Dorchester Museum M.S. Catalogue of Bronzes, no. 315,b) Dorchester Museum - letter from Seward to J.E. Acland, Curator, 5 Feb 1921 (Loose in Museum Register)
Remarks: PI(O)l SI; CI