Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Royal United Service Institution, No. 579,Presented by Admiral Sir J. Rowley Bart G.C.B.
Site: Ireland,Co. Tipperary,Tipperary,(in a bog)
Parish: Tipperary
County: County Tipperary
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 582.5
Width (mm): blade 32 (where thickest), 40.5 widest; hilt 49, 26, 33
Thickness (mm): 3.5, 8
Weight (g): 585
Patina: Traces of black patina on hilt and very slightly on the blade.
Surface: Smooth and mostly clean dark golden bronze colour.
Description: The holes are particularly well drilled - very clean and even. Point is missing, but generally the preservation is splendid.