Object: Short Dirk
Classification: Trapezoidal Plate
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1927-2344, Evans Collection
Site: England,Cambridge,Burwell,Burwell Fen,1872
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 215
Width (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 4
Weight (g): 74.01
Patina: Dirty greenish patina.
Description: Length of rivets 14mm; diam. 7-9mm. Hilt approximately spatulate. 3 rivet-holes in line at butt. Originally 3 round-headed rivets, but 1 has been lost and this hole torn out.
Publications: Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 248,B.A.V. Trump, P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 95, 26
Remarks: Trump's I