Object: Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Dagger 
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection, Dr. Sprigg, Ruthin Castle, N. Wales, 1926
Site: Wales, Clyn Traian, Orsedd Wen, found with a skeleton in a Barrow, March 1850
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Orsedd Wen
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 71
Width (mm): 47
Patina: mottled green
Other: Apologies for any mis-transcription of Welch
Associations: found in a barrow with a skeleton
Description: Much broken.  Very fragile + attached to a card on which is a sketch of its supposed outline
Publications: Archaeologia Cambrensis 2nd Ser. ii (1851) 9., Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales + Mounanthshire [?].  Inventory of the County of Denbigh. P. 58, No 186.
Remarks: Label: (1) “ Ruthin Castle, (2) “ Part of a spearhead or dagger (Ancient British) found with a skeleton in a tumulus at Brsedd Wen, near Selattyer in March 1850: the outline is filled up from a spear of similar type found at Ebuall, near Oswestry in 1848 or 1849.