Object: Sword
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on line of railway cutting, 6 ft. below surface, lying on stratum of sand, c. 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill. Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 83
Width (mm): 48 across shoulders
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 80
Patina: Green & brown
Surface: Mostly smooth.
Associations: Part of large hoard; see card for first sword fragment.
Description: Fragment consisting of shoulders & upper part of blade. Cutting edges of blade chipped & blunt; ricasso notches, one almost completely broken away. Rivet hole in each shoulder, above the rivet was there develop slight flanges to the hilt-piece; mid rib extending the whole length of the fragment. Considerably bent.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Evans,Jessup, Arch. of Kent, 107,Journ. Anthrop. Inst. III, 230