Object: Dirk
Classification: Trump's I with trapezoidal plate
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Jan 1937.,Hythe End Aggregates ltd, a subsidiary co of Wm. Truchel ltd.  141E Battersea Park Rd. S.W.8.,LONDON,British Museum. Unregistered
Site: England,BERKSHIRE,Wraysbury,,Hythe End,See Bucks Map (6"). LVIII N.E: spot marked X. Recovered by suction-pump, working 12'-25' below water level, in sandpit. The formation here is old grey pebbly sand of the Thames bed (Runnymede).,Found on or about Jan 7, 1937.
Discovery context: river
Parish: Wraysbury
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 00 74
Year of discovery: 1937
Length (mm): 258
Width (mm): 61
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 154
Patina: Gold colour on one side; the other the same with patches of black patina by shoulders and on one wing of blade.
Surface: Smooth + in fine condition.
Other: Geolocation: guessed at the match with Staines as Wraysbury is also in Maidenhead and Kent.  Should be easy to locate precisely if you still have the map marked with an X!,  Collection: wasn't sure of spelling of "Wm Tru[?]el ltd",  Width: measurement qualified as being "at shoulders",  Drawing: 3 annotations showing where "Edge turned over" and one "Edge Broken"
Associations: A ring of ?bronze and also some bones looking like ?human long-bones were recovered by the pump at the same time, but were not rescued in time.
Description: Dirk with two loose rivets at top.  Mid-rib extending to  point.  Both edges slightly turned over, + one broken towards the tip of blade.  Otherwise condition exceptionally good.
Publications: B. Trump. P.P.S.  1962  No.5.  p.95.    No 13,
Remarks: Inacc drawing