Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection 1927-2525,From Hugo Collection
Site: England,Thames,Essex,Barking,Found in R. Thames about a mile west of Barking Creek,1859
Discovery context: river
Parish: Barking
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1859
Length (mm): 455
Width (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 321.33
Patina: unpatinated.
Description: Notches in tang: but Evans says (op cit. p. 284) 4 rivet holes, broken away. Midrib continuous through tang.
Publications: Proc. Soc. Antiq., 2nd Series, I, 44.,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 284.