Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Black Gate Museum, N/C,Mus. No. 1932.64
Site: England,Northumberland,Dissington,2 mile E. of Stamfordham,Found by Major R. C. Hadley on the desk of the agent for the Dissington Hull Estate, who used it as a paper knife! It was a local find but details are not recorded.
Parish: Dissington
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 140
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 21
Thickness (mm): 13
Patina: Some light brown
Surface: Very good
Other: Length: 5 1/2" = 139.7mm,Width: blade 13/16" = 20.6375mm; socket 15/16" = 23.8125mm,Thickness: 1/2" socket = 12.7mm
Publications: Proc. Soc. of Antiq. of N/C. 4th Series, Vol V, p. 328, Record of donation only.,Northumberland County History, Vol. XII, fig. 12, modestly good photograph, two aspects to full size; brief account of specimen.
Remarks: cf. Evans fig. 242 but note transverse rivet hole of Dissington specimen.