Object: Sword
Classification: Ballintober
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum,  55 . 2 . 27 . 19,  Presented by Lewis Loyd Esqre.,  27/2/1855
Site: England, GREATER LONDON,  Croydon,  Wickham Park
Parish: Wickham
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 51
Patina: green metallic
Surface: partly corroded
Other: Detailed hand-drawn illustration, with imagined extensions., Last 3 lines of SITE info have been written in different handwriting and ink over white-out label.
Associations: 1--22 and 34 fragments, fragment of gouge, fragment of hammer, fragment of mould, bronze object, conical lump and lump of ....
Description: Bronze fragment of hilt of Auvernier sword
Publications: E. Sprockhoff, Die Germanischen Vorgriffschwerter der Zungeren Bronzezeit (Rom -Germ. Forschungen, bd. J, 1934), pp. 62, 136; taf. 35, no. 6.*   [star apparently refers to "ibids" under Associations., Also  Arch. Journ.  XCI, 2, 320.
Remarks: TO LEFT ASSOCIATIONS:,  Hoard consisting of 1 winged celt (*ibid no. 7), 1 palstave, 3 socketed celts, (*2 ibid no. 5 & *.) fragment of spear-head, fragment of ferrule (*ibid. no. 7.) fragment of implement, metal., BOTTOM LEFT CORNER:,  Inacc., BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER:, C 1  [ in pencil]