Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,Presented by Mrs. W. K. Foster,(Freeman Collection)
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Cambridge,Newnham,Grange Road,1896
Parish: Newnham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1896
Length (mm): 418
Width (mm): 61.5
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 248
Other: Width: blade 23mm; hilt plate (widest) 61.5mm
Description: In good preservation. Point slightly bent. 2 notches for rivets. Ornamented with mid rib and 2 beads running parallel with cutting edge.
Publications: Annual Records Catalogue, 72, 1899,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 95, 44
Remarks: Trumps II Thetford