Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum, 263:47, T.C.B. Collection
Site: Surrey, Wheatley's Eyot,, Near Sunbury., From a backwater of the Thames.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Sunbury-on-thames
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 418
Surface: Good. Dark, green-brown patina with small patches of poorer light green.
Composition: Bronze. Good, although edges slightly corroded. One rivet still in position
Other: The object type was initially given as "Sword" before being crossed out and replaced with "Rapier". The site description was initially given as "Middlesex." before being crossed out and replaced with "Surrey". It also appears that "Thames" has been written in the site description before also being crossed out.
Remarks: J. Wymer