Object: Dirk
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: London, Society of Antiquaries Collection, B.22,(Presented 1860 by Sudlow Roots, Esq., from the collection of his father William Roots - no. 13)
Site: England,GreaterLondon,Kingston-upon-Thames,Chelsea Waterworks,"Found at the Chelsea Waterworks at Kingston, July 1855, 8 feet deep in the blue clay, on the banks of the Thames." (a),The site could in fact be within Long Ditton, Surrey,Ordnance Survey Records state: "area TQ 173675"
Discovery context: river
District: Kingston upon Thames
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 17 67
Year of discovery: 1855
Length (mm): 295
Width (mm): 48.5
Thickness (mm): 5.3
Surface: Black to dull gold surface - black possibly very thin patina flaking to gold
Description: Dimensions: L 295mm; Wsh 48.3; max T. 5.3mm,Typology: sub-trapezoid, rounded asymmetrical corners and edges rounded in section; irregular bevelled surfaces around on rivet hole - other more flat inside, neither neat circular; hilt plate and uppermost blade with thick central swelling -rounded ridge; blade with very narrow flattened midrib and broad cont. edge bevels; shs. obtuse angles, but emphasised by little peaked points; edge bevels curve to meet shs.,Condition: no major damage, edges very good and sharp - very minor nicks,Attached Material: Small patch chalky encrustation next one rivet on reverse face
Publications: a) P.S.A. 2, I, 1859-61, 83 no. 13,b) Phillips 1967, 26
Remarks: Labels/Markings: white ink inscr.: "B.22"; loose taglabel - Roots original; loose hand-painted label,PIF; AFI; DF(C); SI; CI; SN Feb. 79; Source: MV; Old Card: 1