Object: Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sotheby's Sale, 19.11.24; 690,Collection of W. J. Knowles MRIA,of Flixton Place, Ballymena
Site: Ireland,Antrim,Loughguile,1870
Discovery context: auction
Parish: Loughguile
County: County Antrim
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 79.5
Width (mm): blade 25; hilt plate 39.5
Thickness (mm): blade 2
Patina: Mostly polished patina light green - stained.
Surface: Smooth. Traces of encrustment
Associations: Found inside an urn (earthen) with bones.
Description: 2 rivets 9 to 9.5mm long. Sharp edges slightly broken. Traces of hafting between rivets.
Publications: Illustrated in Abercromby's Bronze Age Pottery, Vol. II, p. 163, fig. 47