Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1927-2353, Evans Collection
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Chatteris, near,1871,"Found at the bottom of an old canoe between the peat and clay."
Discovery context: peat
Parish: Chatteris
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 388
Width (mm): 57
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 171.53
Patina: patches of patina, purple.
Surface: Clean bronze, with
Other: Thickness: 5mm; 6mm
Description: Broad, low-keeled midrib. 2 rivet holes in butt.
Publications: Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, p. 250, Fig. 315,Cyril Fox, Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, p. 64,Antiq. Journ. VI, pp. 127, 147.,B.A.V. Trump,P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 95, 32
Remarks: Trump's II Chatteris