Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2446
Site: England,Norfolk,Stoke Ferry
Parish: Stoke Ferry
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 546
Width (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 9
Weight (g): 608.17
Associations: Hoard, Nos. 2444-2450, comprising 2 broken leaf-swords. 3 large spearheads, 1 chafe, 1 habbard.
Description: Broken into pieces. Notched at base of blade. 4 rivet holes in straight shoulders + ?3 in tang. "Appears to have been a defective casting, + to have dented a portion of its hilt plate. This has been subsequently supplied by a 2nd hilt plate having been cast over the broken cut of the original plate, a hole in which has stopped with a rivet which has been partly covered over by the 2nd casting (Evans, A.B.I.,p. 282).
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., Hoard No. 22, pp. 282, etc.,Proc. Soc. Anthrop. V, 425