Object: Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, 180.96,Purchased by the Colchester Corp’n, 1896,see transcriber comment
Site: England,Essex,Southchurch
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 17.71,27.47,see transcriber comment
Other: Collection – it looks as though there is a Colchester Museum ref no. ref partly obscured by the red dot – 180.96, I think. Weights in plural because this card details 2 items.
Publications: trans Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. VI. 173
Remarks: Part of a Bronze Founder's hoard of 62 Pieces, composed of fragments of the following: 24 socketed celts, 6 swords, 4 spearheads, 2 knife sockets, 1 sword chape, 1 tang of sickle, also 15 lumps of metal, 7 fragments of undecisive shapes, 1 socketed gouge and 1 gouge socket