Object: Sword
Classification: Ballintober
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Southend Museum, Prittlewell Priory, 375/2
Site: Essex,Southchurch,Thorpe Hall Brickfield,1929,Found while digging brickearth. Other Bronze Age remains, including implement, from same field.
Parish: Southchurch
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1829
Length (mm): 398.78
Width (mm): 40.64
Surface: Heavily corroded with bronze disease.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Length: 15.7" = 398.78mm,Width: 1.6" = 40.64mm, Blade 2" = 50.8mm, Rivets .5" long = 12.7mm, breadth at end 1.2" = 30.48
Associations: No definite association, but possibly associated with 375/5, a looped flanged palstave.
Description: Blade 2", rivets .5" long. Leaf shaped sword with midrib. Two rivets survive on both sides of the hilt, one broken off on one side of the hilt, one totally absent. Rivets are cylindrical, bronze. Circa 6.4" not drawn of sword, broken off above the point. Breadth at end 1.2".
Publications: Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. 19 (N.5), pp. 311-13, Illus.
Remarks: Prepared by: D.G. Macleod, Assistant-in[Chrge, Prittlewell Priory Museum, June 1958