Object: Blade
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Society of Antiquaries Collection, B.6 (iii),(presented by Malachy Hitchins)
Site: Cornwall,St. Ives,Lelant,(Lanant)
Parish: Leland
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SW 53 37
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 44.5
Edge (mm): 28.5
Thickness (mm): 7
Surface: Mainly dull/pale speckled greens, dry rough surface; flaking at edges to choc. brown sur.
Description: Dimensions: EL 44.5mm; max E.W. 28.5; T 7.0,Typology: rounded mid ridge; no edge bevels discernible,Manufacture: one of broken ends reworked - bevel flattening midridge on either face,Condition: broken in ant.; edges blunt & irreg. - prob. mainly corr. dam.,Attached Material: small smear of lead attached to one face - prob. recent traces of yellow sand in corr. layer
Remarks: Labels/Markings: White ink inscr. 'B6',PIF, AFI; DF(C), SI; CI; Rec. SN Jan. 79; Source MV