Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Public Libraries Museum + Art Gallery,Sunderland,Co. Durham
Site: England,Co. Durham,from bed of R. Wear at Hylton,near Sunderland
Parish: Hylton
County: County Durham
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Patina: Green brown
Surface: Slightly corroded
Associations: Dredged up with another sword.
Description: A modern flat hilt with grooves has been braised on. Point also has been tampered with. Grown hollows appear to have been filled in.
Remarks: Submitted by J. Crowley, Esq. Director (letter 11th May 1952) with letter from Professor J. A. Richmond re: having modern accretions removed. B.M. Lat. advised against this.