Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection, 1923,Lord Selborne,Blackmoor, Hants,15
Site: England,Hampshire,Selborne,In the garden of a cottage on western side of road ascending from Eveley corner to Hogmoor.,Spring 1870
Discovery context: gardening 
Parish: Selborne
District: East Hampshire
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1870
Length (mm): 320
Width (mm): hilt 55, 35; blade 44
Thickness (mm): where blade joins hilt 1.5, 9.5, 5
Weight (g): 430
Patina: Polished light grey
Surface: Caked carbonate on hilt. ? Pitted along blade (described in original as "a mass of points for ornament" "extending the full length withour any definite arrangement in lines")
Associations: Hoard of leaf shaped swords, spearheads, 1 dagger & some rings, also ferrules (53 articles in 63 fragments).
Description: 2 rivets near end of hilt & 1 loose in hole near c. This is bent, probably in breaking. A strong mid-rib.
Publications: White's Selborne, Macmillan, 1876, Vol. II, pp. 254-258.,White's Selborn Bell, 1877, Vol. II, p. 381,Evans' A. B. Imps., p. 464