Object: Sword
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb. 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: Englang,Sussex,Vapton,Flansham
Parish: Flansham
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 50
Width (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 60
Patina: Dull green & brown patina
Surface: Smooth
Associations: 2 socketed celts & 5 fragts; 2 socketed gouges & 1 fragt.; 1 socketed knife fragt.; 2 sword fragts; 1 ferrule & 1 fragt.; 1 spearhead VI fragt; 1 copper cake & 25 metal lumps.
Description: Upper part of blade; two rivet holes in shoulder (of) of them torn; a concavity on the upper surface, corresponding with that point from which the missing hilt sprang; besides this is another small concavity representing a third rivet hole. Pointed oval section, edges slightly rough.
Publications: Sussex Notes & Queries VII, 78
Remarks: This hollow represents a third rivet hole.