Object: Dagger
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Leicestershire Museum, given by Mr. J. Allon McDonald, 1874
Site: England, Leicestershire, Syoton, River Wreake
Discovery context: river
Parish: Syston
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 202
Width (mm): 41.5
Thickness (mm): 4.5
Weight (g): 104
Associations: Found near a piece of skull, at River Wreake, Syoton, 19 feet below surface of ground and 11 feet below bottom of River,in grave, lying on red marl under 17 or 18 feet of bluish mud. Skulls of sheep or goat and bos longiforms found above it.
Description: Yellowish bronze, surface decayed; iron rest distributed over surface, more thickly for the handle should have been
Publications: Translations of the Leicestershire Literary & Philosophical Society ix (1888) pp. 25, 26
Remarks: The above were brought to light in widening the railway bridge across the Wreake for the Midland Railway Co. Jan 1873. Mr. J.A. McDonald was the Company's Engineer.