Object: Dagger
Classification: Ogival
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Willis Museum, Basingstoke: On loan
Site: England,Hampshire,Kingsclere Parish,Bowl Barrow,West of Hook Lane,Excavated by W. S. Portal, who found a flint cairn and evidence of a pyre: associated with bone needle or pin (now lost).
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Kingsclere
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: Hampshire O.S. 6" sheet XVIII, NW
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 146.05
Width (mm): 56.52
Thickness (mm): 5.08
Other: Length: 5.75 ins = 146.05 mm,Width: 2.225 ins (max) at shoulder = 56.52mm,Thickness: 0.15-0.2 ins = 3.81-5.08mm
Associations: An eyed bone pin, of which nothing is now known except from the photo in P.S.A./
Description: Three shallow grooves on both sides of blade leading from each rivet with rows of [founced?] decoration in the central space between: hatching indicates dull metal showing outline of handle (missing); both rivets are present: edges of blade notched unevenly and small part of left shoulder missing.
Publications: P.S.A. (2nd S.) vol. XXIII, 1909-11, pp. 98 ff (Dale),H.F.C., Vol. IV, 1898, p. 49 (Andrews),H.F.C. Vol. XIV, 1938, pp. 17, 32, 36, 348 (Grinsell),P.P.S. (New S.), Vol. IV, 1938, p. 103 (Appendice VII) Piggott: Wessex Grave Group no. 24. Reported as "lost".,Wilts. Arch. Mag. Vol. XLV, p. 457, daggers list no. 25 (R.S. Newall)
Remarks: Margaret C. Macfarlane, Assistant Curator.