Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,Bronzes 91 (Numbers to be found in a volume entitled "Museum of Archaeology"),Prehistoric Bronzes No. 2 (Catalogue is lost.)
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Ely
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Isle Of Ely
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 598
Width (mm): hilt plate 37.5, 50; blade 42
Thickness (mm): blade 6.5
Weight (g): 565
Patina: Black & whitish green & metal showing through on one face.
Surface: Rough, uneven, & flaky.
Composition: Bronze
Description: Bevelling around blade edges has almost disappeared. The edge round hilt plate from shoulder to shoulder has been filed, thus altering the outline. (Pommel end filed flat). The four large rivet holes have been redrilled. Two smaller ones (one broken into) have not. 4th central rivet hole modern (JDC).
Remarks: Labelled: R.86.14, Bronze Sword, Ely, W.K. Foster, Esq.