Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Unknown loc.,Private Collection,Sotheby's Lot 305, 24,v,21
Site: "Irish Type" (Vide catalogue)
Discovery context: auction
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 492
Width (mm): blade 35.25, 27.5; hilt plate 38.5, 19.5
Thickness (mm): hilt plate 9; blade 3.75, 7.5, 3.75
Weight (g): 496.4
Patina: Thin dark emerald green patina with golden bronze showing through at intervals.
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Description: The bevelling is indistinct + the revised centre of blade is not sharply defined + less distinct towards middle of blade. Pierved for 4 rivets - one remaining. Blade broken + repaired in 3 places.