Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dover Museum,presented by Rev. W. Vallance.
Site: England,Kent,Sittingbourne,16th Jan. 1862
Parish: Sittingbourne
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 194
Width (mm): blade 21.5,hilt 43; 19.5
Thickness (mm): blade 6.75
Weight (g): 141.75
Patina: a little green patina but blade is mostly golden bronze.
Surface: fairly smooth. Hilt slightly corroded.
Associations: Found in an urn with 6 bronze rings measuring from 1 1/2 - 2 1/4 cms in diameter.
Description: four of the holes are filed. There are no rivets attached.
Publications: C. Roach Smith Collectanea Antiqua I, 1848, pp. 101-102
Remarks: Originally 3 pieces found.,Three feet away was another urn containing 4 Sock. Axes.,JCM