Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Norwich Castle Museum,Fitch Collection, 785.76-94,Cat. of Antiqs. No. 318
Site: England,Suffolk,Wetheringsett
Parish: Wetheringsett
County: Suffolk
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 645
Width (mm): blade 50, blade 39; hilt 60, 20, 16, 31
Thickness (mm): 8, 9
Weight (g): 760
Composition: Bronze
Description: Central rounded rib along blade + engraved lines on hilt.
Publications: Arch. Assoc. Journal, Vol. iii (1848), p. 254 + Vol. XV (1859) pl. xxiii, p. 230 fig. 4,Evans' B. Imps (1881), fig. 345, p. 282
Remarks: Discovered by clay diggers about 14' deep with it a great number of human bones but no pottery or other remains.