Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf Shaped Sword/Hybrid Bexley Heath/Hallstatt
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Reading Museum, AL2
Site: England,Berks.,Reading,Katesgrove,from the Kennet,Nov. 1883
Parish: Katesgrove
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1883
Length (mm): 542
Width (mm): blade 40; hilt 49
Thickness (mm): blade 7
Weight (g): 609.52
Patina: Brown, worn off most of the blade, leaving surface a rusty colour.
Description: Perfect but for a few dents in blade. 6 rivets.
Remarks: Classification, J.D. Cowen, July 1957