Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1947-2535
Site: England,Dorset,Weymouth, near,1878
Parish: Weymouth
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1878
Length (mm): 625
Width (mm): 60?
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 442.47
Surface: Rough, dirty leaden grey & green.
Associations: Found with a leaf-shaped spear-head (not recorded in 1934).
Description: Blade repaired. 4 large rivet-holes in wide shoulders. Hilt flanged, with central slit, imperfect.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, pp. 279, 313, 464; Woods List No. 19