Object: Socketed Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Newcastle-upon-Tyne,Black Gate Museum, 90
Site: England,Northumberland,Wittingham,Thrunton Farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Wittingham
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 437
Width (mm): 35
Weight (g): 405
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: 35mm; at hilt 24mm,Weight: Hilt only 60,64 gms; total 404.61 gms
Description: The socketed pommel is formed of a pon-annular ring with trumpet mouthed termination. It probably from this belongs to the iron age. Certainly the spearheads found associated with it belong to Hallstatt period, or end of Bronze age.
Publications: Evans, p. 288, fig. 351,Arch. Vol. LXXIII, Pl. XLIV, fig. 36, pp. 210-225,Arch. Ael. 4 ser. XII (1935), p. 280, ff, Pl. XXVI, 1.2,Proc. Soc. Ant. Ser. II, Vol. V, p. 429.,Hord, Fer. pl. IX, fig. 3,P.P.S., XIII (1947) p. 175 ff.
Remarks: Part of hoard, including 3 spearheads (Nos. 91, 92, & 93 of this catalogue) and a bronze sword (No. 89).