Object: Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2385
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach,Reach Fen,1867
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 59010 66998
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 189
Width (mm): 30
Thickness (mm): 22
Weight (g): 119
Patina: Green-brown patina.
Other: Weight: 119.42 gms
Associations: (?Part of great hoard 1867)
Description: Tang slightly flanged: perforated by 1 large rivet-hole. 2 loops arched across blade. Blade worn and shortened, edges jagged.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 210, Fig. 250 (blade has been longer).
Remarks: Made from hilt end of sword of Rixheim Variant.