Object: Dagger
Classification: Rivetted
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Leicestershire Museum, given by Mr. J. Mr. George Harrison
Site: England, Leicestershire, Leicester, Sidney Street
Parish: Leicester
County: Leicestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 156.5
Width (mm): 66
Thickness (mm): 1.5
Weight (g): 120
Other: After Riveted Dagger, written in pencil  may have been "(Wessex I)"
Associations: Found resting on a human skull
Description: A broad, thin, flat dagger, much oxidized, with 9 rivets and blade, all present. Part of hilt, which is partly of wood.
Publications: Translations of the Leicestershire Literary & Philosophical Society ix (1888) pp. 27, 28., Harrison W.J. Geology of Leichester + Rutland, p.  51., Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, 231, Fig.  288.
Remarks: It was found 23 April 1868, about 2 feet deep,resting on a grave, in Sidney Street, Leichester, about 7 feet from the edge of the foot road leading to Belgrave.