Object: Rapier
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: England,Essex,R. Blackwater
Discovery context: river
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 455
Width (mm): 20
Thickness (mm): 4.5
Weight (g): 188
Patina: Intense black patina with some slight streaks of blue.
Surface: Smooth and dull except for some roughness about the rivet holes.
Other: Width: blade 20mm; hilt plate 37mm
Description: Hollow ground along. the cutting edge, so that a broad midrib is formed. 2 or 4 rivet holes all broken into - or notches.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 138,Foster Bequest, 23,B.V.A. Trump, P.P.S., 1962, No. 5, p. 96, 71
Remarks: Trump's III Lisburn