Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Flat Knife Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum,J.93.439,Bateman Collection
Site: England,Derbyshire,Wormhill,In a barrow near,15 August 1846
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Wormhill
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1846
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 57
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 114
Patina: Light green patina, dark under handle.
Description: 3 Rivets. Very smooth and polished; the remains of the wooden sheath were noticeable. Apparently unused.
Publications: Bateman T. Vestiges, 90,Abercrombie, J., Prehistoric British Pottery, I, 57.
Remarks: Behind the head of a contracted skeleton, lying on its left side, near it were two flint implements.