Object: Blade
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: SHEFFIELD MUSEUM,J.87.53,(BATEMAN COLLECTION)
Site: SOUTH YORKSHIRE,SHEFFIELD,CROOKES,COCKED HAT LANE (1887)
Parish: Sheffield
County: South Yorkshire
Country: England
Grid reference: c. SK 32 87
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 136.5
Width (mm): blade 22.5,Mth. prob not much more than 3
Surface: Poor rough surface varied dull to blue-greens, and dull grey-browns.,Broken into 10 pieces - possibly relatively modern - breaks fresh. No evid. for end of tang missing - likely intact. Much of edges thin to fine sharp edge no evid. for much of outline lost.
Associations: FUNERARY
Description: Thin rectangular tang section, one side surviving neatly squared with v. slight lips along corner - hammered flanging; blade much distorted, prob. lenticular section; hints in odd places of original light groove inset from edges; twig-like protuberance at blade end - from original casting or remelt in cremation? although tip is apparently missing (end squared off) there is no obvious break there - prob. remelted into protuberance.
Publications: Howarth, 1899, 136-7,Bu'Lock, 1961, 22-3, 41, fig. IV.1,Gerloff, 1975, 172-3 no. 338,Leader, 885-7