Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Earl of Selborne,Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants.,No. 11, 1923
Site: England,Hampshire,Selborne,In garden of a cottage on western side of road ascending from Eveley corner to Hogmoor.,Spring 1870
Discovery context: gardening 
Parish: Selborne
District: East Hampshire
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 265
Width (mm): 33, 38
Thickness (mm): 1.5, 6, 5
Weight (g): 185
Patina: Remains of dark green patina, bronze shows through, other parts a lightish brown, a very high glaze on parts of the blue (? green) & brown.
Associations: A hoard containing at least 53 articles in 63 fragments, mostly swords, spearheads, ferrules & rings.
Description: Edges badly hacked. Fracture shows no blow holes - bent near fracture, showing probably intentional fracture.
Publications: Whilte, Gilbert: Nat. Hist. of Selborne, Macmillan, 1876, 254-8,White, Gilbert: Nat. Hist. of Selborne, Ed. Bell,1877, 381.