Object: Ring-Socketed Sickle
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Norfolk,near Downham,in the Fen,1869
Parish: Downham
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1859
Length (mm): 144
Width (mm): 43
Edge (mm): 22
Thickness (mm): 28
Weight (g): 105
Surface: Deeply corroded in uneven shaped pits. These pits are light green and buff. Light green inside socket. Top surface bright metal colour with the streaked appearance that sandpaper filing gives.
Other: Width: Blade 22mm; handle end (socket) 43mm,Thickness: socket 28mm
Associations: Found with rapier and palstaves (like Grunty Fen).
Description: Sickle is sharp on both sides. Two holes in socket for a pin. Looks as though it was cleaned up with sandpaper.
Publications: Mentioned by Evans, p. 199,Prehistoric Bronzes 14, No catalogue.,Bronzes 27, The numbers are to be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 172, 1884.,Fox Arch. Camb. Region, 8 no. 2,Burgess, Ant. J. XIX (1969) fig. 4.1