Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cambridge Antiquarian Museum
Site: Hungary
Country: Hungary
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 540
Width (mm): hilt plate 42.5; blade 40, 21, 10
Thickness (mm): 7.5, 5
Weight (g): 264
Patina: Dark brown patina, some dark green, dust colour & in some places all mixed up & speckly.
Surface: Fairly smooth, slightly corroded.
Description: The incised decoration is quite clean & very even.
Publications: Foster Bequest Catalogue: "Rapier blade of elegant form, long + swelling gradually near hilt end + tapering again to a waist: hilt plate rounded above + with a short square tang below. Each side perforated with three rivet holes, set close to one another, cutting edge defined by a broad groove, faces sharply ridged down centre. In the swelling part of the blade are 3 grooves in each side of the central rib, starting from a point in the rib + parallel to the edges of the blade, converging on the hilt plate towards the bordering groove: between their extremities are 2 [volutes?] on line with the 2 sets of rivet holes."