Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private,Mr. J.T. Sturrock (the finder),Lyonshall,Promised to Hereford Museum, lent June 1932.,Hereford Cty. Museum 4354
Site: England,Herefordshire,Lyonshall,30 yds NNW of pond N. of Bryncurl (6" OS Herefs. XVIII NW, SW corner),Found 12th December, 1931.
Parish: Lyonshall
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1931
Length (mm): 268
Width (mm): blade 35, socket 28
Thickness (mm): Blade 8,Socket 15
Weight (g): 255
Patina: Brown
Other: Weight 9 oz. exactly
Associations: No associated objects & nothing to distinguish surrounding soil.
Description: Point missing, edges of blade worn, socket rubbed on one face. Flat ogival midrib flanked by 3 grooves, the outer one very shallow: section of 7 facets.