Object: Knife
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Colln., 1927.2358,"E.L.B. to W.G.S." in yellow paint, Worthington G. Smith's hand, i.e. given to him by Rev. E.L. Barnwell.
Site: Wales,Denbs.,Cyffylliog (W. of Ruthin),"Nielig" (Niwlyg) Farm,Found several feet deep in turf,"20 ft. peat", 1834
Parish: Cyffylliog
County: Denbighshire
Country: Wales
Year of discovery: 1834
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 31
Thickness (mm): 4
Patina: Brown
Description: Marked narrow midrib. 2 rivet-holes in broad rounded tang.
Publications: Royal Comm. Anct. Mons., Denbigh, No. 217;,Arch. Camb. 3. III. 424,,Exhibited by Rev. E.L. Barnwell to Cambrian Arch. Assn. at Monmouth (1857), Bangor (1860) & Carmarthen (1875).
Remarks: Related to short dirks