Object: Knife Blade
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: JUDGE BEQUEST,55.1.1,PLYMOUTH CITY MUSEUM
Site: DEVON,MOUNT BATTEN, PLYMOUTH
Parish: Plymouth
County: Devon
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 70
Width (mm): 23.5 at greatest width
Thickness (mm): At blade adjoining socket, 5.2
Weight (g): 21.48
Surface: Pitted and corroded. Spotted with verdigris
Composition: BRONZE
Associations: See previous finds from Mount Batten. J. PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION, 1928-36. See socketted & looped axe-head found in midden with this dagger.
Description: SOCKET DAMAGED & BROKEN
Publications: J. PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION, Vol XVIII P.148
Remarks: Found during Air Ministry excavations, 1939, by Mr. J.J. Judge. In "kitchen midden"