Object: Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrooke Museum
Site: England,Isle of Wight,Ashey,In barrow 5 on Ashey Down
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Ashey
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 139
Width (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 2
Weight (g): 58
Associations: Found at a depth of five feet, lying immediately on a heap of half-burnt human bones.
Description: Length of rivets 5mm. There is no ornament or grooving, nor does it thicken perceptibly in the centre. The point of the blade has been broken off since the published illustrations were made; the middle rivet is missing, but the other two are preserved. The outline of the hilt can be traced, and it appears to have been mounted approximately at right angles, for use as a halberd.
Publications: Journ. Brit. Arch Ass., X, (1855), 164, fig. 2.,Hillier, History of Isle of Wight, pt. i, p. 7. fig. 1.