Object: Dirk
Classification: trapezoidal plate
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Rochester Museum
Site: England,Kent,Chatham Dockyard
Parish: Chatham
County: Kent
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 265
Width (mm): 33
Edge (mm): 19
Thickness (mm): 6
Patina: Dull black patina golden bronze showing through.
Surface: Fairly smooth one side. Other side badly pocked.
Other: Width: blade 19mm; hilt end 33mm and 30mm
Description: Rivets are missing.
Publications: R.F. Jessup, 'Kent', 102, 253,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., No. 5, p. 96, No. 80