Object: Flat Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection 1923, P. Waterhouse Esq. Yattendon Court
Site: England,  berkshire, yattendon, yattendon court, in digging foundations of house, 1878
Parish: Yattendon
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1878
Length (mm): 2997
Edge (mm): 1981
Thickness (mm): 279
Weight (g): 298
Patina: bright green, pale green in pit holes
Surface: badly pitted . Some rust adheres to one side. the other partly covered with yellow clay.
Other: Length, width, thickness not recorded in any units. Have assumed inches & recorded accordingly
Associations: part of a hoard of 60 pieces. including (Evans, A. B. Imps., p 169) [...], [...] gouges, socketed & tanged knives, swords, seatband [...] spearheads, & flat, conical & angular pieces [...]
Description: Butt chipped: edge chipped & one corner missing
Publications: Proc. Soc. Ant. (2nd [...]) VII 480, V. C. H. B[...]ks i, 182-3 Evans. Anc. B. Imps. p. 169 (not in chapter on Flat [...])