Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Haddenham,Aldreth,Highbridge,August 1854
Parish: Haddenham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1854
Length (mm): 592
Width (mm): blade 42.5; hilt 58, 31
Thickness (mm): blade 8
Weight (g): 652
Patina: Brown patina, some green & dust colour about the hilt, metal showing through all over slightly.
Surface: Rough & corroded, deep pits in places.
Description: One rivet in slot, below are four rivet holes, containing 3 rivets.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 144. No catalogue.,Bronzes 1, Numbers to be found in catalogue named "Museum of Archaeology.",Cambridge Antiquarian Society catalogue, 160, 1883.