Object: Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,Mrs. W. Foster
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Soham Fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Soham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1899
Length (mm): 354
Width (mm): 16
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 140
Patina: dark brown.
Surface: Smooth & dull
Other: Width shows "16mm at section of blade. hilt plate 49mm". Thickness shows "Blade 6mm".
Description: Three ribs -- one down the middle & the other two following the cutting edge where it expands. Broken in two & slightly bent.
Publications: Annual Records Catalogue 327. 1899.