Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2574
Site: England,Devon,Crediton,1898
Parish: Crediton
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 677
Width (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 399.50
Patina: Dirty green patina, rubbed clean at point.
Associations: Found with another and 2 palstaves (Nos. 2571-3)
Description: Length of rivet 21mm; diameter 8 x 12mm. Slender tapering blade with twin-bevelled midrib. Outer lines diverge at base into broad butt with 2 large rivet holes, 1 broken. 1 rivet remains.
Publications: E. T. Leeds, Antiquity, II, 351,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., No. 5, p. 95, 60
Remarks: Trump's II Mortlake