Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sotheby's Sale, 14.12.25, Lot 270,Property of Mons. Fenardent
Site: Ireland,Roscommon,Boyle (near)
Discovery context: auction
Parish: Boyle
County: County Roscommon
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 463.5
Width (mm): blade 35.5; hilt 44, 34
Thickness (mm): blade 7
Patina: Remains of very slight black patina + dirty golden bronze.
Surface: Tiny pittings all over.
Description: Outline of rough metal at A (both sides), possibly from a join or breakage. The hilt is hollowed between the 2 outside ribs.
Remarks: Painted on: Nr. Boyle, Roscommon 14941, B.V.X.X.