Object: Knife
Classification: Rivetted Dagger, I. (Flat-Knife)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1836-1868, p. 12,Given by J. Shaw Phillips, 1848
Site: England,Oxfordshire (Berkshire),Blewbury,Churn Bottom,In a barrow
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Blewbury
County: Oxfordshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1848
Length (mm): 74
Width (mm): 27
Thickness (mm): 3
Weight (g): 13.99
Patina: Dirty brown patina
Associations: Found in westernmost large barrow at Churn Bottom, in the Parish of Blewbury, Berkshire, in the centre within one foot of the main deposit of burnt bones, Sept. 20th, 1848.
Publications: Evans, Ancient Bronze Implements, 225,Arch. Journ. V, 282,Arch. Assoc. Journ. XVI, 249,Vict. Hist. Berks., i, 194
Remarks: the two rivets were found at the same time; one was lost and the other was preserved with the instrument. This is now missing.