Object: Blade
Classification: Grooved Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Plymouth Athenaeum
Site: England,Devon,Hammeldon Down on Dartmoor. The furthermost of the "Two Barrows". Exact find place in barrow is not known (1872).
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Hammeldon
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): 30
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 49
Patina: Greenish-brown patina
Surface: One side fairly smooth, with a few small pits near the point: the other side has large areas of the surface broken away, the depression then formed being covered with patches of green patina.
Associations: In the barrow were bones and an amber pommel with minute gold studs let into it.
Description: Fragment of blade of a small ogival dagger. Although the shoulders, edges and point are all broken, its original outline is indicated by the grooves running down the blade near the edges.
Publications: Trans. of Devon Assoc. V, (1872), 554 -