Object: Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Norwich Castle Museum,Given by Mrs. Palmer, Catsholm, Methwold in 1991.
Site: England,Norfolk,Methwold,Catshholm
Parish: Methwold
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TL 6888 9707
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 326
Width (mm): 63.8
Thickness (mm): 6.7
Weight (g): 272.2
Surface: Mainly smooth greeny-brown, with some bright green pocking; enigmatic organic traces in corrosion; reverse face with scattered, randomly-oriented grass (or similar) - see photo; obv. faces with ? leather-like remnants at butt- difficult to interpret - plus grass/wool?
Description: Dimensions: L 326mm; Wsh 63.8; max T edge (away from tip) 1.6; max T edge at tip 2.7; max T. 6.7; Wt. 272.2 g,Typology: lozenge section with crisp longitudinal bevel; no edge bevels, parts of edge quite thin but not sharp, parts squared - perhaps with patina? distinct facet from further blunting of edges at tip and minor facet on each face at tip; flat sides to butt; very slightly beaked shoulders.,Condition: minor clipping of edges, larger notches at butt; oblique blunting at tip rounded, but burred.
Publications: Burgess and Gerloff, 1981, no. 176 (P.B.F. IV, 7)
Remarks: PIF; SN Sept. 92; Sb.A.