Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: County Museum and Gallery, Truro
Site: England,Cornwall,St. Keverne,Carnpessade (about 500 ft SE of Carnpessach Farm),near Cattle drinking-trough,July 1923
Discovery context: farm
Parish: St. Keverne
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1923
Length (mm): 581
Width (mm): hilt 48; blade 48
Thickness (mm): blade 9
Weight (g): 786.71
Patina: Traces of patina brown, worn off in most places. Metal showing faintly in places.
Surface: Badly pitted.
Description: Edge badly notched, point turned. Hilt somewhat damaged.
Remarks: The sword was found by the tenant, Mr. W. J. Carlyon, in boggy ground near the drinking trough, fully buried with the exception of the point, which attracted the finder's attention: it was lying diagonally in the bog.