Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Moyses Hall Museum,Bury St. Edmunds,(Cullum Bequest), F30
Site: England,Suffolk,River Lark,Icklingham,From river at Icklingham Suffolk in 1780
Discovery context: river
Parish: Icklingham
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 7 7
Year of discovery: 1780
Length (mm): 601.98
Width (mm): 50.8
Thickness (mm): 12.7
Weight (g): 694.56
Patina: Gone
Surface: Has been cleaned
Composition: Bronze
Other: Length: 23.7 ins = 601.98 mm; Width: 2 ins = 50.8 mm; Thickness 5/10ths = 12.7; Weight 24 1/2 oz. = 694.56 gms
Description: Fine specimen; six rivet holes
Publications: Prigg 1888, 190,Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. I, 1849-53, 24: " The following presents were announced:...The Rev. Sir Th. Cullum, Bart., send a bronze sword, which was found about 70 years ago in the bed of the river Lark, near Icklingham."
Remarks: A.R. Edwardson, Curator