Object: Dirk
Classification: reworked as Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: D. Fox
Site: England,Norfolk,Great Walsingham
Parish: Great Walsingham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 174
Width (mm): 15
Edge (mm): 21.8
Thickness (mm): 3.3
Weight (g): 62.8
Surface: Mainly dry, slightly roughened, dull greens with pits and pocks; scratching of reverse blade face has begund to bite brighter metal.
Description: Dimensions: L 174mm; W top 15.0; max EW 21.8; max Bs 15.5; max T blade 3.3; Wt. 62.8 g.,Typology: blade bevels very diffuse now - originally flattened midribs with hollowed bevels; unfurling of 'socket' would create clear notched dirk butt from (Lisburn type),Manufacture: Wings of previous broad butt have been curled round to form near full, roughly circular socket; this has lead to small tears on each underside of butt; blade and butt edges flanking the tears have been flattened by hammering.,Condition: Intact parts of edges not very sharp; strong bend in blade - deliberate part of reworking?,Attached Material: l. brown soil traces.
Remarks: PIF:Sketch over; SN Aug. 93; Sb.A.; via N.C.M. Site no. 2024/661