Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Weybridge Museum, CI 3., purchased from Eric Gardener Esq
Site: England, Surrey, Weybridge,
Parish: Weybridge
County: Surrey
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 384
Width (mm): 47, 21
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 217.5
Surface: bright bronze
Composition: Condition perfect.
Other: The object type was initially given as "Sword" before this was crossed out and replaced with "Rapier". Underneath the object type is written "Trump's III Barnes.". Below the site description is written "Dredged up from beneath bridge at Weybridge on River Wey, (site of a ford), 1911.". There were two width measurements given. The first was for the width of the hilt end and the second for the blade.
Publications: Surrey Archaeology Collection Vol XXIV, B.A.V. Trump. P.P.S. 1962. No 5. P.99, 256