Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Warwick County Museum,Mus. No. A.196,Previously Earl of Aylesford
Site: England,County: Warwickshire,Town or parish: Meridan,Details of find unknown. Sword was presented to Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society in June 1852 by the Earl of Aylesford.
Parish: Meridan
County: Warwickshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 571.5
Width (mm): 44.45
Thickness (mm): 7.62
Other: Length: 22.5 in. = 571.5mm,Width: 1.75 in = 44.45mm (just below hilt),Thickness: 0.3 in. = 7.62mm (just below hilt)
Description: Leaf shaped blade and straight shoulders, slight swelling in outline of grip, widest part nearest shoulder. Two rivet holes on one shoulder, but metal broken away on other shoulder at rivet holes. One rivet hole in hilt set i longitudinal groove; within same groove a dimple (mid-way between hole and widening for shoulder) perhaps for another hole which had not been perforated. The groove forks below dimple, but is deeper on side of surviving shoulder rivet holes. At junction of hilt and shoulder side pressure has pressed edges up slightly. Blade, an elongated oval, broken at 9.4 in. (238.76mm) from tip: pieces fit together. Outer face (.5mm) in many places flaked off, but surviving surface and metal appears stable.
Publications: 1. 17th Annual Report of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society, April, 1853, p. 3.,2. F. W. Shotton, Proc. Coventry Natural History and Scientific Society, vol. U, 1938, pp. 190 & 191.