Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1836, p. 122 No. 32,Given by Sir William Knatchbutt, 1746
Site: England,Wiltshire,Winterbourne Earls,Figsbury Rings
Parish: Winterbourne Earls
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1704
Length (mm): 355 + 271
Width (mm): blade 38; handle 48.5
Thickness (mm): 8
Weight (g): 609.8
Patina: Dark green patina
Description: Two low ridges on tang; centre hole on tang not perforated, though sunk on both sides. Edge much dented.
Remarks: Described in catalogue: "32 A brass sword found in 1704, when ploughing at Figsbury, in a great circular escarpment about 2 miles from Sarum, on the London Road, broken as it now is by the plough-share. The entrenchment on the Great Roman Causeway from Broughton to Old Sarum."