Object: Halberd  
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: 1905, British Museum 11 6, purchased 1905. Wm. Wms. (i.e. William Williams) 1
Site: England, SALOP, (Shropshire), Wroxeter (possibly), 1838,, scratched on blade =, "this is what ? I found in, :the ground Wm. Wins"
Parish: Wroxeter
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ5608
Year of discovery: 1838
Length (mm): 308
Width (mm): hilt plate 93   blade 69.5
Thickness (mm): blade 6.5
Weight (g): 513.05
Patina: dark green
Surface: rough in places.
Other: 2-part,hand-drawn illustration, including cross-section.  With dimensions., Multiple handwritings and different ink types (especially under publications)., Second 2 lines of SITE information have been written over white-out label.
Description: Broad central rib and a groove down each side of blade.,  4 Rivet holes.  Top (hilt) rather bent.  2 rivet holes are cracked.
Publications: fig.d Arch. Journ. XI 414. but said to be from Shropshire.,  Waight "Uriconium" p 298. says Uriconium (Wroxeter),  L. F. Chitty, Archaeologia Cambrensis, IXXXIII (1928) 209.,  S.P.D. Riordain.  Archaeologia.  Vol 86 1936 p 312.  No. 9.
Remarks: LOWER LEFT CORNER:,  Labelled as from "Wrexham.", [in pencil}:, A OK, LOWER RIGHT CORNER [in pencil]:, C 1