Object: Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield City Museum,Bateman Collection,J.93.471
Site: England,Derbyshire,Net Lowe,Alsop Moor
Parish: Net Lowe
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Weight (g): 83.5
Patina: Green patina
Associations: Extended inhumation (Bateman notes that lower jaw lay at feet of body, when skeleton had evidently never been disturbed), 2 V-perforated jet buttons, numerous fragments of calcined flint & 2 rude flint implements.
Description: Weights: Blade and 2 rivets attached: 83.5 gms; 28 rivets: 25.1 gms; 2 pins: 4.5 gms
Publications: Vestiges of Antiquities of Derbyshire (Bateman), pp. 68-9,Catalogue of Bateman Antiquities (S.C.M. 1899), pp. 79-80.,Evans (1881), p. 230.,D.A.J. LXXV, (1955), p. 112.
Remarks: 30 rivets and 2 bronze pins found with dagger. Dagger blade in 4 pieces.