Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Norfolk,Downham Fen,Jany. 1859
Parish: Downham Fen
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1859
Length (mm): 483
Width (mm): 44
Edge (mm): 24
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 207
Surface: Corroded all over. No discolouration at all. Metal showing all over very bright and clean.
Other: Width: blade 24mm; hilt plate 44mm
Associations: Found with the sickle and palstave.
Description: Broad midrib and 2 notches.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 135. No catalogue.,Bronzes 10. The numbers to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology".,Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 164., 1884.