Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ellesmere Museum,Pres. by W. Nugent Monck, 1920
Site: England,Shropshire,Ellesmere,Val Hill in the township of Tetchill,found by a workman while grubbing up a fence
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Ellesmere
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 467
Width (mm): hilt 42, blade 35.5
Thickness (mm): blade 6
Weight (g): 457
Patina: Reddish brown patina rubbed off in places.
Surface: Slightly pitted in one or two places.
Description: Hilt broken off through rivet hole. Blade broken near point + roughly mended. Edge chipped near fracture. Point slightly filed.
Publications: Rdt. Kingon, Shrops. Arch. Trans., IV (2ns Series, 1892), 280,Anden, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops, I, 202, (under "Bagley"),"Times", 14th March 1921
Remarks: The sword seems to have been broken by the workmen who found it. It was taken to the Rev. Walter Moore, Rector of Hordley, who had it mended by the Hordley Blacksmith, who was probably responsible for filing the point. From the Rev. Walter Moore, it passed into the hands of his son, Mr. Charles Moore, of the Hollies Ellesmere, at whose death it was given to the Ellesmere Museum by his executor.