Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory Prittlewell (Southend on Sea),276/64
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26,(Found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 84
Width (mm): blade 35; hilt plate 52
Thickness (mm): blade 9, 11
Weight (g): 131.1
Surface: This side is clean golden bronze, slightly encrusted. Other side is encrusted nearly all over & golden bronze.
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard.
Description: Marked with heavily indented lines down middle of blade & hilt