Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum,316,lent by Weymouth Borough Council,Jany. 1931,Gone to Ashmolean - presumably in exchange for Dorchester 1934.35.1 formerly in Evans Collection 1927-2534 - another sword from the Backwater, Weymouth
Site: England,Dorset,Weymouth,From the Radipole or Backwater during the construction of the new bridge, found 4 feet below bed of backwater.
Parish: Weymouth
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SY 677 792
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 517
Width (mm): hilt 53; blade 35
Thickness (mm): blade 7
Weight (g): 382.72
Surface: Mud colour
Description: Hilt broken, point broken, 1 rivet rusted in.
Publications: Dorchester Mus. MC Catalogue of bronzes, No. 314
Remarks: CI SI