Object: Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,1911.217
Site: England,Somerset,Norton Fitzwarren
Parish: Norton Fitzwarren
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 270
Width (mm): 80
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 230
Patina: Dark brown patina and some bright green.
Surface: Fairly smooth, some corroded pits and lumps.
Other: Width: blade at section 34mm; hilt plate 80mm
Description: Broad midrib and bevel round cutting edge. 6 rivet holes and notches; only one of these is not actually broken into. Hilt plate is damaged. The blade has been broken, possibly intentionally with a to and fro movement and been soldered in modern times.
Publications: Annual Records Catalogue, 1911,Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 98, 233,Rowlands, 1976, no. 1884, pl. 43,Dobson, 1931, 83, 247 (cat.)
Remarks: Trump's I