Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,21
Site: England,Thames,London (near),The Thames
Discovery context: river
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 513
Width (mm): blade 37.5; hilt plate 46, 14.5
Thickness (mm): blade 6
Weight (g): 432
Patina: Many shades of brown patina encrusted parts mostly white + some green.
Surface: Rough + encrusted in places. There is some fine gravel adhering.
Description: No bead on faces, but with a very slight hollow bevel on cutting edge. Two rivet holes on upper part of hilt plate + 2 more on the narrow part of hilt plate - the expanding plate of which is missing.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 47. Catalogue is lost.,Foster Bequest 238, Catalogue