Object: Socketed Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology Cambridge,(from Nunn's sale, Royston 1905),Mrs Walter K. Foster 1905
Site: England,Hertfordshire?,Royston (in the neighbourhood of)
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 445
Width (mm): blade 37 hilt 42 24
Thickness (mm): 7.5
Weight (g): 442
Patina: dark brown almost black
Surface: smooth & dull
Description: Half a hilt of bronze, being a socket containing 7 pairs of rivet holes
Publications: Annual Records Catalogue 35. 1905,Arch. Ael. 4 Ser. XII (1935) p.280 ff. Pl. XXVII, i,Fox, "Arch. Camb. Reg." Pl. IX, 4; p.59,P.P.S. XIII (1947) p.175