Object: Knife
Classification: Tanged
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Brentford Public Library,Layton Collection, 01280,(Now in London Museum, under "daggers")
Site: England,Greater London,Brentford,Old England,Bed of Thames,July 1864
Discovery context: river
Parish: Brentford
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1864
Length (mm): 285
Edge (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 7
Patina: No patina, traces only of black.
Surface: Much corroded in places. Bronze colour.
Other: Thickness: blade 7.25 mm
Description: Slightly bent. One rivet hole.
Remarks: Inacc.,This seems to be a knife or dagger made from a broken sword.