Object: Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Dagger Ogival
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Trump's Dec. W., British Museum W.G. 2064
Site: England, Northumberland, Ford, Westfield Farm
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Ford
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Grid reference: NT9437
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 223
Width (mm): blade 37; hilt 74
Thickness (mm): blade 5
Weight (g): 207.52
Patina: brown
Surface: corroded all over.
Description: Two rivet holes (broken), clearly visible, but can have had five, or three. Hilt plate damaged, also edges & point.
Publications: Evan's A.B.I. p. 274 possibly halberd (see below), B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S. 1962, No. 5, p. 98, 223
Remarks: Almost OK, Is rather dagger or short dirk than halberd, for which neither the rivet plan, the mid rib lines, nor the blade's v. slight asymetry seem suitable. Not listed as halberd by O'[...], Archaeologia 86 (1937) 195-321.