Object: Flat Knife
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrooke Museum
Site: England,Isle of Wight,Arreton,Arreton Down,Found in a barrow near the large chalk-pit.,A few years before 1815.
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Arreton
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1812
Length (mm): 64
Width (mm): 32
Weight (g): 15
Description: It is broken in half and the point is lost; only one rivet-hole is visible. There is a considerable thickening in the middle, which might almost be called a midrib.
Publications: Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass. V, (1850) 365 & 599; VI (1851); 452 & 5099.
Remarks: It appears to be that found by the workmen employed by the turn-pike commissioners, and obtained with other relics by Thomas Cooke and some members of the Isle of Wight Society of Natural History and Antiquities in 1815, and by them placed in the Newport Museum.