Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,Litchfield Collection (from Evans' collection)
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Cambridge
Parish: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 480
Width (mm): 43 blade; 54.5 hilt (widest)
Thickness (mm): 7 blade
Weight (g): 330
Surface: On one side smooth & dull & bright green, some brown & black about the rivet holes also rougher. On the other side rougher, bright green & light brown.
Description: Broken in 2 places. High sharp midrib, ornamented round the cutting edge with 2 parallel incised lines. No notches. Rivet holes roughly punched (8). The metal must be fairly soft, because the broken edges are bent as though broken with a to and fro movement.