Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum and Public Library Maidstone,Presented by Silas Wagon Esq. the owner of the gravel pit. Jany 1921.
Site: England,Kent,Aylesford,on site of gravel pit known as Parish Field,October 1898,(13 feet beneath the surface)
Parish: Aylesford
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Ord. Sur. 6" Kent XXXI, S.W. Long. 0* 28' 55" E. Lat. 51* 18' 24" N.
Year of discovery: 1898
Length (mm): 138
Width (mm): 56.5
Weight (g): 77.94
Patina: Green patina probably oxy-carbonate of copper.
Surface: Warty malachite.
Associations: Found with a similar rivetted dagger and a Flat Celt, also human remains in a fragmentary condition.
Description: Flat. Rivets remaining.
Publications: Procs. Soc. of Antiquaries, Second Series, Vol. XVII, pp. 373, 376-7.,V.C.H. Kent I, 334,R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 115, 251,London Instit. 10th Rpt.