Object: Short Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man
Site: Isle of Man, Braddan Parish, Douglas, found in pulling down the old post office, Athol Street, 1894
County: Isle of Man
Country: Isle of Man
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 230
Width (mm): 46.5
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 99.2
Composition: Bronze
Description: Weight as: "3 1/2 oz.", Copper        88.90%,  Tin     10.60,  Lead   trace,  Iron     trace,  Zink    0.25,  Sulfur  0.15,  Total =        99.90
Publications: List of Manx Antiquities, 1900, p. 18 (reprinted from Un Lioar Manninagh, Vol. III, pp. 153-193) described as “Sword”., Manx Museum Catalogue, Pt. I (prehistoric), 1924, p. 17, № 56.-1, Postcard of Bronze Implements.