Object: Dirk
Classification: trapezoidal plate
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1927.2351, Evans Collection,(From C. Road Smith)
Site: England,Greater London,River Thames
Discovery context: river
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 255
Width (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 121.57
Patina: Brown patina
Surface: Rive-mud accretions.
Description: Miss Leggs says 2 rivet-holes torn out, but Evans, ABI, p. 249 classes this among "blades...cast with deep rounded notches in the base to receive the rivets instead of having holes drilled or cast in them."
Publications: Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 249, Fig. 314,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 97, 181
Remarks: Trump's III Lisburn