Object: Knife
Classification: Leaf bladed flat stemmed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2474,H. Prigg.
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach,Reach Fen,1867
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 59010 66998
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): 26
Thickness (mm): 3
Weight (g): 24
Patina: Almost unpatinated.
Other: Weight: 23.98 gms
Associations: Hoard of about 60 objects of Late Bronze Age, Nos. 2451-2489, including socketed celts, spear-heads, knives, small tools, etc. For details, see Socketed Celt No. 2451.
Description: Leaf-shaped blade with midrib. Long 4-sided tang with splayed butt. "Knife...possibly intended for a lance-head...of yellower metal and differently patinated from the objects found with it" (Evans).
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 213, Fig. 256,Prigg, Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn. XXXVI, 56, ff., Fig. 11