Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf Sword Halstatt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1929,Mr. Ivor Rowlands,Restaurant, Llangollen,Bought, among other objects at the sale of the late Rev. C.H. Drinkwater, St. George's Vicarage, Shrewsbury, 1923
Site: River Thames,(The Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A. understood from Mr. Drinkwater that it came from the Thames, there is no suggestion that is was found in Shropshire).
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): Excluding hilt 476
Width (mm): 46.8
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 750
Composition: Bronze
Description: A modern hilt has been fitted to it. Blade plain with lateral groove near each edge. There is no midrib. Signs of heavy use. Blade is somewhat worn near point + slightly bent. Maximum thickness near hilt.
Publications: This was probably "G 69 - Roman Sword. Lent by Rev. C.H. Drinkwater, Shrewsbury, to the Exhibition of Shropshire Antiquities, 1898: Shrops Arch. Trans, 2nd Series, Vol. X, Part IV, page XI (not numbered), among exhibits received since the catalogue was compiled.