Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Southend-on-Sea Museum, 1929
Site: England,Essex,Southend-on-sea,Southchurch,Thorpe Hall Brickfield (about 1000 yds. E. of Thorpe Bay, L.M.S. Rly. Station),3 ft. 6 in. deep in brick earth containing fragments of bone & charcoal.,23rd February 1929
Parish: Southend-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1929
Length (mm): without point Length 403, point 54; 457
Width (mm): Hilt 40; blade 41.5
Thickness (mm): hilt 6; blade 5
Weight (g): 365; weight without point 343.74, point 21.26
Associations: Found with 1 palstave & 1 fragment of sword blade
Description: Hilt transitional between dirk & sword. 4 rivet holes, 1 rivet.
Remarks: The brickfield is worked to depth of 7 ft: beneath the earth is ballast & sand. Excavations around the site of discovery produced no additional objects.