Object: Knife
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, No. 193 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland, King's Co., Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 168.5
Width (mm): hilt plate 35; blade 26
Thickness (mm): blade 3.5; hilt plate 1 (greatest)
Weight (g): 102
Patina: shades of dark brown patina & some green.
Surface: slightly rough. the edges are uneven.
Description: The hilt plate, which has been broken off & recently soldered onto the blade, is thick & heavy & uneven. It has 2 rivet holes, one of which is filled with corrosion. The bevel of the cutting edge is visible in places.
Publications: In the Murray Catalogue, this is called a fragment of a leaf shaped sword, but it is much more like a dagger, or a knife.