Object: Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford., 1936. p.122. No 42., Given by J. Mellersh Esq. 1825.
Site: England., Sussex., Heyshot., Found in digging a chalk-pit.
Discovery context: chalk extraction
Parish: Heyshot
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 190
Width (mm): 47
Thickness (mm): 4
Weight (g): 61.32
Patina: Green patina
Composition: Broken in half. 2 rivets.
Other: The object type was initially given as "Dagger" and "[...]" before these were crossed out and replaced with "DIRK". Underneath the object type is written "with trapezoidal plate".