Object: Sickle
Classification: Knobbed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pump Room, Bath
Site: England,Somerset,Batheaston or St. Catherine,In making pipeline from Monkswood Reservoir.,1894
Parish: Batheaston
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1894
Length (mm): 103
Edge (mm): 26
Thickness (mm): 2
Weight (g): 33
Composition: Bronze
Other: Thickness: 1.5mm
Associations: Hoard of 3 sickles, bronze toorgues, bracelets, cast ring pins, looped spearhead, ferrules, awl, 3 knoves, etc. 25+X objects.
Description: Signs of grinding on cutting edge. The tip has gone. In poor condition - fair finish.
Publications: Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiq. F. C., viii, 147 - 158.,Sir. C. Fox, Arch. Cambriensis, Dec. 1941, p. 142, No. 24