Object: Dagger
Classification: Rivetted (sic),Ogival Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum,24,Cummington Collection,1884.9.19 [in pencil]
Site: England,Dorset,Upwey,Barrow on Ridgeway (No. 7),Found in the third internment in Mr. John Mayo's,barrow on the Ridgeway, near Upwey, opened August 1885.
Parish: Upwey
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1885
Length (mm): 190
Width (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 6, 4
Weight (g): 157
Surface: slightly corroded in places.
Associations: Found with stone hammer; 2 flint saws, 5 flint celts and a fragment of another, many smaller worked flints, a bone ornament, bodkin,,skull and other bones.
Description: Flat triangular dagger, with midrib, and three rivets; notch near point, other wire perfect.
Remarks: Owing to the way in which it has been fixed into the case, it proved impossible to take accurate measurements or to make an accurate drawing.