Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum, J93.438
Site: England,Derbyshire,Buxton,Brier Low (In a barrow),1845
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Buxton
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1845
Length (mm): 140
Width (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 2.5
Weight (g): 85
Patina: Green patina.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: 59mm; 42.5mm; 14mm
Associations: It lay close to the middle of the left upper arm of a skeleton of a big man. The interment had disturbed a previous burnt burial urn, where burnt bones (?) and a small piece of an urn.
Description: Good condition. 3 rivets remain.
Publications: Bateman's Vestiges, p. 61