Object: Dirk
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,Donor, Wm. Scotson, finder.,1938,Drawn by Lily F. Chitty, 10 February 1937
Site: England,Shropshire,Church Stretton,Caradoc Hill,About 200 yards W.S.W. of entrance to hill-fort in a rock crevice.,1936
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Church Stretton
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SO 4753 9508
Year of discovery: 1936
Length (mm): 53
Width (mm): 27.5
Thickness (mm): 4
Weight (g): 21.26
Patina: Dark olive green patina on one face, dull blue-green on that drawn; partially worn to dark purple-brown core.
Surface: Worn and [?crazed] by burning, lustrous. Break apparently ancient.
Composition: Presumably bronze.
Other: Width: hilt 27.5mm; at break 12mm,Weight: just over 3/4 oz. = 21.26gms
Description: Edges blunt. Hilt verging on spatulate with rounded heel. 1 rivet broken out in antiquity: one survives, L 12mm, W at head 5mm & 5.3mm, ends rounded.On reverse are white and pale green patches (?dust of cremated bones). No trace of burial.
Publications: L.F. Chitty, Shropshire Arch. Trans., 1938, Misc. i-ii, Fig.
Remarks: Salop S & S Record, no. 240.,CI; SI