Object: Dagger
Classification: Grooved rivetted
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum,J.93.444,Bateman Collection
Site: England,Derbyshire,Church Sterndale,In Dow Low Barrow,5 September 1846
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Church Sterndale
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1846
Length (mm): 121
Width (mm): 54
Edge (mm): 43
Thickness (mm): 2
Weight (g): 57
Patina: Green patina
Associations: Found with a skeleton, an ornament of iron ore, and a large flint implement much used.
Description: 2 rivets, 6 converging grooves, mark of handles visible.
Publications: Sheffield Museum Catalogue,Bateman, T. Vestiges, 96,Evans, J., Ancient Bronze Implements, 237, Fig. 297,See Piggott, Culture and Environment, p. 84 note 5.
Remarks: Grooveing, see Piggott as above.