Object: Sickle
Classification: Knobbed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Taunton Castle Museum,Stradling Collection,Purchased 1902
Site: England,Somerset,Edington,Edington Burtle in a Turbary
Parish: Edington
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): 31
Edge (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 6
Weight (g): 91
Other: Width: butt 31mm; blade 25mm,Thickness: blade 6mm; butt 13mm,Weight: 90.5 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard found in peat in a wooden box. Bronze ribbed and twisted armlets and finger rings, 4 sicles, a lore, and palstaves. 14 objects.
Description: This has evidently not been used - but as it came from the mould. Unsharpened.
Publications: Evans, B. Imps., Illus., p. 107,Proc. Som. A. + N.H.S., XLVIII, part I, p. 84, and part V, p. 93,Sir C. Foc, Arch Cambriensis, Dec. 1941, p. 142, No. 26, (Pl III)