Object: Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Whitby Museum Acc. No. 3B,(Given by F. Elgee Esq.) [Dr Frank Elgee],1936,(Curator, Dorman Memorial Museum, Middlesbrough)
Site: Yorkshire, NR,Whitby,Egton Moor
Parish: Whitby
County: North Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 368
Width (mm): 51 at widest point
Other: Length 14 1/2 in.,  Width 2in. at widest point
Associations: None
Publications: Frank Elgee, Ph.D., in the Whitby Gazette, 27 November 1936, p.12, with photograph; the article states that the dagger 'has recently been given' to Dr Elgee by Mr. H.A. Innes, of Croft, to whom, about 1928 (about 8 years ago), it had been given by one of his farm employees, named Morton, who died about 1933 or 4 (= "2 or 3 years ago") aged 69, and who had been a farm lad at or near Egton when 'a pal' of his, another farm lad, found the dagger when herding up sheep on the moor. (Approx. date of the claimed discovery therefore within the 1880's. C.F.C.H.),Brought by Dr Elgee to the British Museum, Nov. 1936, when this card was filled in and its drawing made, and the dagger was submitted to Dr. H.J. Plenderleith, B.M. Research Laboratory, who reported on 5.Dec.1936 that 'there is nothing distinctive about the surface corrosive or surrosive deposits' on it.
Remarks: These names written here +/- 1957 by Margaret Smith; reason not recorded,C.C. Fowler,D.M. Walker,Study of this and other Cypriot type dagger finds in Ctral Europe being carried out 1965 - by Warwick Bray, Dept. of Ancient History, The University, Sheffield 10.