Object: Sickle
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: Locality unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 121
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 18
Thickness (mm): 5
Weight (g): 50
Surface: Smooth and shiny though slightly corroded all over. Metal showing through all over.
Other: Width: blade 18mm; socket 19.5mm,Thickness: blade 4.5mm; socket 14mm
Description: Strengthened on the inside by a bead. Bevelled to a cutting edge on the outside. There are 3 ridges indicated on the blade where it has been hammered. Oval socket in which are 4 rivet holes for 2 pins. One hole is broken and bent.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes 115. No catalogue,Bronzes 29. The numbers can be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue 173. 1884.