Object: Sword
Classification: Pommel
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,,  Evans Collection, 1927-2480,,  H. Prigg.
Site: England,Cambs.,Remch Fen,1867
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 40
Width (mm): 13
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 8.8
Patina: Dirty green patina.
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Hoard of the Late Bronze Age, Nos. 2451-2489, including socketed celts, spear-heads,,knives, sword fragment, chape, small tools, etc. For details, see Sock. Celt No. 2451.
Description: 2 pairs of rivet-holes in faces (one hole broken). Base closed except for large irregular hole, which may be accidental (Evans). "Not improbably, the pommel of the hilt of a dagger or sword". (Evans).,One end entirely open.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Impl., p. 229, Fig. 285, Hoard No. 82,,  Prigg, Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. XXXVI, 56 ff., Fig. 14