Object: Rapier
Classification: Rivetted
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology + Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 194 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,King's Co.,Edenderry
Parish: Edenderry
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 291
Width (mm): hilt plate 63.5; blade 32
Thickness (mm): blade 8.5
Weight (g): 445
Patina: dark brown patina, corroded places - green
Surface: smooth and dull, except a few patches where corrosion has made pits.
Description: Lower half of a very large broad blade, with flat rounded and slightly indented hilt plate to which all 3 large rivets remains attached. Bevel round cutting edge very clear and distinct. The cutting edges are fairly sharp though chipped all along. Scallop on hilt plate round the rivet has got bent.