Object: Dirk
Classification: Trump's II Chatteris
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Warwick County Museum, Bloxam Collection No 53, previously in collection of late M.H. Bloxam of rugby and then in Rugby School Museum
Site: County: Warwickshire, Town or Parish: New Bilton (nr. Rugby)., Found on 31st Dec. 1867 in the garden of Mr. William Gilbert “not more than ¼ mile from the mound.. Which for many years has been known as Butlin’s Mound”., (M.H.B.)
Discovery context: gardening 
County: Warwickshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 251
Width (mm): 72.4
Thickness (mm): 5
Other: Length as: "9.9 in." = 251 mm; Width as "2.85 in" = 72.4 mm; Thickness as: "0.2 in. at widest cross section" = 5 mm.
Associations: Nothing Recorded
Description: See Transcriber's Comments for conversion of inches to millimeters. ,  Ogival dagger with central (cast) midrib from point to about 1 in. [25.4 mm] from heel.  Cast rib following edge on each side, fades out about 0.2 in. [5.08] from shoulder of heel.  Edges beveled towards tip.  Two rivet holes in heel, both rivets (round in section with slightly domed mushroom heads) in place.  Sides damaged (see drawing).  Part of scabbard (?fur) may be adhering to one side (see drawing in V.C.H).
Publications: 1. M.H. Boxam, Rugby, the School and Neighborhood, 1889, p. 181., 2. V.C.H. Warwickshire I, p. 218 & pl. opp. p. 214 (with other references in f.n. 8.), 3. B. Trump P.P.S. 1962, No. 5, p. 99, No 261