Object: Sickle
Classification: Knobbed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Taunton Castle Museum,Purchased 1902,Stradling Collection
Site: England,Somerset,Edington,Edington Burtle,in a Tubary
Parish: Edington
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 132
Width (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 57
Other: Thickness: 6mm; 14mm,Weight: 56.5 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard found in peat in a wooden box. Bronze ribbed and twisted armlets and finger rings, 4 sickles, a tore and palstaves. 14 objects.
Publications: Illustrated in Evans, B. Imps, page 197,Proc. Som. A + N.H.S. XLVIII, part I, p. 84, & part V. p. 93,Sir C. Fox, Arch. Cambriensis, Dec. 1941, p. 142, No. 25, (Pl IV.)