Object: Sword
Classification: Hilt of Leaf-shaped Sword/Hilt. Frag
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Earl of Selborne,Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants.,No. 13,1923
Site: England,Hampshire,Selborne,In garden of a cottage on western side of road ascending from Eveley corner to Hogmoor,Spring 1870
Discovery context: gardening 
Parish: Selborne
District: East Hampshire
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 150
Width (mm): 35, 55, 33
Thickness (mm): 9, 6.5, 2
Weight (g): 192
Patina: Remains of dark green patina, but mostly bronze colour, a high glase on part of both colours.
Associations: A hoard containing at least 53 articles in 63 fragments mostly swords, spearheads, ferrules & rings.
Description: Ornament of carefully made points, finishing with lines, on both sides.
Publications: White, Gilbert: Nat. Hist. of Selborne, Macmillan, 1876, 254-8,White, Gilbert: Nat. Hist. of Selborne, Ed. Bell, 1877, 381,Evans, B. Imps., 464