Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Guille Alles Museum, Guernsey,Gaudion Collection
Site: Channel Islands,Alderney,Longy Common,1832
Parish: Longy Common
County: Guernsey
Country: Channel Islands
Year of discovery: 1832
Length (mm): 57, 112
Width (mm): 32, 49, 40
Thickness (mm): 12, 9
Weight (g): 194
Surface: (I) Green & grey green coloured - prominent parts are brighter green. A little mud adheres.,(II) This piece is very bent. Colour, green brown & green. One side deeply pitted and shows rust coloured spots. A little mud adheres on the other side.
Associations: Hoard of about 200 pieces.
Description: (II) The drawing shows the piece flattened out. Broken edge is very rough (hilt piece)
Publications: T.D. Kendrick, The Arch of the Channel Islands, Vol. I, p. 64, pl. VIII (1928 ed.)