Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Flat Knife Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum,J.93.449,Bateman Collection
Site: England,Staffordshire,Alstonfield,Stanshope,In a barrow in the Ram's Croft Field,2 December 1849
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Alstonfield
County: Staffordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1849
Length (mm): 117
Width (mm): 43
Edge (mm): 31
Thickness (mm): 2
Weight (g): 28
Patina: Light green patina
Surface: Much corroded
Other: Width: butt 43mm; blade 31mm
Associations: Near the right shoulder of the contracted skeleton of a tall youn man, lying on his left-side. There were flints in the grave, which had been dug in a barrow created for two burials with beakers.
Description: 4 rivets-holes; 2 rivets.
Publications: Bateman, T., Ten years Digging, 158-160.,Abercrombie, J., Prehistoric British Pottery, i., 57