Object: Three-bladed Knife
Classification: Triangular
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private, Miss D. Dudley,Pentavalon, Looe, Cornwall
Site: England,Cornwall,Phillack Towans,Hayle,c. 1930
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: St. Merryn
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1930
Length (mm): 61
Width (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 8
Patina: Dark green.
Surface: Rather pitted with redeposited iron.
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Found below 6' of sand whilst digging a hole for electric pylon near Riviere, Phillack Towans. No further information known.
Description: Bronze, edges worn, perforation counter-sunk. Each face has three roughly equal facets.
Publications: Proc. West Cornwall Field Club, Vol. 2, no. 1 (1951[?7]) illus. note.,For the type and distribution see also Savory H.N. in P.P.S.,Hoard from Venat,   , Invent. Arch. (France) card.