Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf-shaped Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Privately owned,The Duke of Buccleuch.,Boughton Estates Ltd, Tytup Hall, Dalton-in-Furness, Lancs.
Site: Lancashire,Dalton-in-Furness,Butts Back Quarry,Cist containing human bones, bones of a horse (?), bronze leaf-shaped sword and leaf-shaped spearhead. Found April 1874. Destroyed by quarrying.
Parish: Dalton-in-furness
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1874
Length (mm): 62.5475
Width (mm): 4.28625 (greatest width of blade)
Thickness (mm): 0.635 at widest part of blade
Weight (g): 708.738
Other: Length: 24 5/8 in,Width: 1 11/16 in,Thickness: 1/4 in,Weight 1 lb 9 oz
Associations: Bronze leaf-shaped spear-head, human bones and bones of a horse (?) in a cist.
Description: The sword was broken when straightening it at the time of discovery. A wooden plate with two rivets has been attached to fix it together. There are two rivet holes each side of the V shaped shoulder (two rivets still in position) and 2 in the hilt with what appears to be the start of a third between them. The hilt is not flanged. The edge of the point is somewhat damaged. Mainly in good condition with a few spots of bronze disease.
Publications: See Transactions Cumb. & West [...]. and Arch. Soc. (O.S.) XV, 164-5; also (N.S) LXV, 47-52,Proc. Barrow Naturalists Field Club. vol. XVII, p. 213.
Remarks: Compiler Clare [...] 16. 1. 62.,The bones were thrown away before being properly examined,,Approw. map reference 34/232747.