Object: Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield City Museum, Bateman Collection, J.93. 454
Site: England, Yorkshire, found in a barrow at Scamridge, 11 mi. E. of Pickering, 1851.
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Scamridge
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Patina: green patina
Associations: See Remarks
Description: Pommel of bone
Publications: Ten Years’ Diggings (Bateman) pp. 225-6, Catalogue of Bateman Antiquities (S.C.M. 1899) p.  75., Evans (1881) p.  227., Piggott Culture and Environment P83 Fig 18 no 16.
Remarks: Inhumation in cist, overlying tumulus almost totally destroyed by plowing.  The scraper, 2 small stone spheres (1” x 2” diam.), and “peculiarly-shaped stone”, Bateman notes that possibility of recovering handle of dagger (of bone) if more care had been taken during excavation, (T.Y.D.)