Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: British Museum, 92.9-1.304
Site: England,Dorsetshire,Cranborne (near),Woodland and Gussage,(Found in altering the water-course, the boundary line between ----),1856,Brendan O'Connor deduces that location would be about SU 017 104
Discovery context: woodland
Parish: Cranborne
County: Dorset
Country: England
Grid reference: SU017104
Year of discovery: 1856
Length (mm): 606
Width (mm): blade 35, 33, 27, 31, 34; hilt 35, 47, 20, 14, 22
Thickness (mm): blade 7
Weight (g): 555.32
Patina: Dull green (light green on reverse).
Surface: A good deal rusted: rough.
Description: 2 rivet holes (are broken). Long opening in hilt. Tail of hilt slightly cracked across and crooked.
Publications: Payne, 1892, cat. no. 76,Cuming 1859, 229 (JBAA): "3 miles SW of Cranborne",Oliver 1936, 28 pl. I.3
Remarks: Drawing not quite accurate.,CI