Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1896-1908, Pr. 373,J. C. Clutterbuck Collection,Given by Rear-Admiral W. R. Clutterbuck, 1908
Site: England,Oxon,Wallingford,In the bed of the Thames a few yards below Wallingford Bridge.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Wallingford
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 66
Other: Weight: 65.59 gms
Associations: Apparently found with or near socketed celt (Ash. Mus. 1896-1908, Pr 372) and spear-head (Ash. Mus. 1896-1908 Pr. 374).
Description: Good condition, except that the edge is slightly blunted and battered. Rivet-hole right through; on other face at point corresponding to Z, another hole, ?damage or casting flaw.
Publications: Report of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1908, p. 3
Remarks: It is possible that these there may be part of the Wallingford Hoard (Evans, Anc. Br. Imp.); they resemble the hoard in condition and patina.