Object: Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Ogival Grooved Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of the Leeds Philosophical  & Literary Society.,  Presented by W. H. Bartholomew Esq. C.E., Headingby.
Site: England, Yorkshire, Wakefield (near), Woodnook., Found while excavating a lock at a depth of 24 feet., 1842, Found in gravel bed above shale and below thick alluvial deposits
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Woodnook
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1842
Length (mm): 235
Width (mm): 67
Weight (g): 249.9
Patina: Brown
Surface: smooth
Other: 2-part, hand-drawn illustration with some dimensions., At least 3 different handwritings and inks/pencil on card.  All 3 appear in site information.
Description: The edges of the blade of slightly ogival outline; low-ridged midrib running the whole length of the blade; a hollow fluted grove runs parallel with and close to the cutting edge, behind this is a rounded ridge with V-shaped hollow beyond, defining outer edge of midrib.  Down each side of midrib are three cast or engraved parallel lines, and across bases of midrib three rows of engraved chevron ornament and one row of crossed zigzags; three large rivets at base of blade., Beautiful preservation and finish.
Publications: Bowman, W. (ed.) 1855,  Reliquaiae Antiquae Eboracenses, pp 39-40