Object: Knife
Classification: Hogback
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: The Priory, Prittlewell, (Southend on Sea),276/116
Site: England,Essex,Leigh,Fleming Avenue,Prittle Brook,29.1.26,(Found by workmen)
Parish: Leigh-on-sea
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1926
Length (mm): 40
Width (mm): 48
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 55
Patina: Thin brownish green. Bronze shows.
Surface: Smooth
Other: Thickness: 7.5mm,Weight: 54.93 gms
Associations: A bronze founder's hoard.
Description: Half this specimen is missing, it is broken along edges where the metal is encrusted on the back*. This pieces of metal is pierced with a hole and one edge is bent all along, as if part had been broken off.,* (dotted lines)