Object: Sword
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb. 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum.
Site: England,Sussex,Tapton,Flansham
Parish: Tapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 73
Width (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 7
Weight (g): 93
Patina: Dull green
Surface: pitted round shoulders; large patch of encrustment on one side of blade.
Associations: 2 socketed celts & 5 fragts.; 2 socketed gouges & 1 fragt.; 2 sword fragts.; 1 ferrule & 1 ferrule fragt.; 1 spearhead VI fragt.; 1 copper cake & 25 metal lumps; 1 socketed knife fragt.
Description: Shoulders & upper part of blade only. Two rivet-holes, one retaining the rivet, which has an over-all length of 12 mm. Blade somewhat bent. Pointed oval section. Rudimentary ricasso notches.
Publications: Sussex Notes & Queries VII, 78.