Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Brentford Public Library,Layton Collection, 01314,Now in The London Museum
Site: England,Greater London,Isleworth,Bed of Thames, Sion Reach, Isleworth, about 25 yards above,1865
Discovery context: river
Parish: Isleworth
District: Hounslow
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1865
Length (mm): 466
Width (mm): 54
Edge (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): 5
Patina: Dirty brown and black patina, with patches of lime adhering. Golden bronze shows.
Other: Width: blade 28mm; hilt plate 54mm
Associations: "Two Rapier Blades found in Bed of Thames, at Sion Reach, Isleworth, 1865." (Label), Nos. 01314 & 01315
Description: 2 rivet holes. The lines shown down the blade are not sharply defined in the original.
Publications: B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 97, 145
Remarks: Trump's III Barnes,OK