Object: Flat Knife/Dagger
Classification: Rivetted Flat Knife Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Carisbrooke Museum
Site: England,Hampshire,Isle of Wight,Bowcombe,Bowcombe Down,Found in a large barrow in May 1859
Discovery context: barrow
Parish: Bowcombe
District: Isle of Wight
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1859
Length (mm): 66.5
Width (mm): 32.5
Thickness (mm): 3
Weight (g): 13
Associations: Found 8 inches below the surface, and 6 inches above burnt human bones.
Description: The dagger-blade is almost precisely identical with that from Arreton Down, but is lighter and not so thick at the middle. Both rivet-holes and one rivet remain; the point has been broken off, but appears to have been intact when the published account was written, and if restored the measurements there given would exactly tally with those of this specimen.
Publications: Wilkins, Kell, & Locke, in Journ. Brit. Arch. Ass., XVI (1860), 253-261, Plate 20.