Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Flat Knife Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Devizes Museum,no.X140a
Site: County Wilts,Bromham Parish,Roundway Down,Barrow on extremity of hill outside Oliver's Camp; i.e. Barrow 2
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Bromham
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1928
Length (mm): 73.66
Width (mm): 25.4
Weight (g): 7.09
Patina: Rough green in patches; the blade end retains its original smooth metallic surface of almost golden colour.
Composition: Bronze -- not analysed.
Other: Length shows "2-9/10in." Width shows "1 inch". Weight shows "1/4oz."
Associations: With cremated burial in large inverted cinerary urn with 2 handles & finger-tip decorations; a secondary ? interment
Description: Thin delicate blade; two rivet holes, one broken away; point apparently missing; blade flat.
Publications: Wilts Arch. Mag. Dec 1929. Vol.45 p.82.,Devizes Museum Cat. Part 2, 2nd Edition, p.51. Pl=XIV,Loddard's List,Wilts Arch. Mag. Vol.38. page 213-4.,DM 808,GC527
Remarks: Accidentally revealed by rabbits burrowing at edge of mound.,Seen