Object: Halberd  
Classification: Ó Ríordáin Type 6
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge.,  Deck Collection, 1854.
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Manea in the Fen (Ely)
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Manea
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 284
Width (mm): 102
Weight (g): 470
Patina: Intense black patina; the rivets are a more coppery colour.
Surface: smooth & shiny.
Description: Thickened down the middle & along which runs a well defined rib. A slight shallow bevelling (sic) to,the cutting edge. Four rivet holes, one broken. Three rivets with square stems.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 121,,  Bronzes, 16,,  Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, 168, 1884,,  S.P. Ó Ríordáin, Archaeologia W[...], 86, 1936, p. 312, No. 7.,