Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf-Shaped Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Privately ownes,The Duke of Bucclench; Boughton Estates [...], Tytup Hall, Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire
Site: England,Lancashire,Dalton-in-Furness,Butts Beck Quarry,Cut containing human bones, bones of a horse (?), leaf-shaped sword, and leaf-shaped spearhead, found April 1874. Destroyed by quarrying.
Parish: Dalton-in-furness
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Grid reference: 34/232747
Year of discovery: 1874
Length (mm): 337
Width (mm): 56
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 482
Patina: Dark green.
Surface: Smooth
Other: Length: 13 1/4" = 336.55mm,Width: 2 3/16" = 55.56mm (greatest width of blade),Thickness: 17/24" = 18.03mm at same point,Weight: 1 lb 1 oz = 481.942 gms
Associations: Bronze leaf-shaped sword, human bones and bones of a horse (?) in a cist.
Description: This magnificent spearhead is in perfect condition. The wings are solid, the mid-rib very pronounced with a lateral moulding on each side which reaches from the tip to the rivet hole on the socket. Rivet hole pierces both side of socket 1 1/2 ins. from its mouth. Chamfered edge to blade.
Publications: See Transactions Cumb. and West. Ant. and Arch. Soc. (O.S.), XV, 164-5; also (NS) LXV, 47-57,Proc. Barrow Naturalists Field Club, Vol. XVII, p. 213
Remarks: The bones were thrown away before being properly examined. Approx map reference, 34/232747,Compiler: Clare Orell, 16.1.62