Object: Socketed Knife
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2470,H. Prigg.
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach (nr. Burwell),Reach Fen,1867
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TL 59010 66998
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 210
Width (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 109
Patina: Dirty brownish patina.
Associations: Hoard, Nos. 2451-2489, consisting of at least 60 pieces, including socketed celt, knives, spear-heads, small tools, etc. For details, see socketed celt no. 2451.
Description: Broken in 2 pieces. Socket oval in section with 2 rivet holes in faces. Low bevelled midrib following contour of blade.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., Hoard, No. 82, p. 205, Fig. 241,Prigg, Journ. Brit, Arch. Ass. XXXVI, 56, ff, Fig. 9.
Remarks: Weight: 108.62 gms