Object: Knife
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum, 245:58,Thames Conservancy Board Collection
Site: England,Berkshire/Surrey,Bell Weir Lock, near Staines,Dredged from the Thames downstream of Bell Weir Lock.,April 1958
Discovery context: river,dredged
Parish: Egham
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1958
Patina: Thin brown
Surface: Good
Composition: Bronze
Description: Tip missing (ancient break) and blade bent. Stress cracks on bent part of blade are patinated so the dredger does not seem to have been responsible.