Object: Sickle
Classification: Knobbed
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Pump Room, Bath
Site: England,Somerset,Batheaston or St. Catherine,In making pipeline from Monkswood Reservoir,1894
Parish: Batheaston
County: Somerset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1894
Length (mm): 153
Edge (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 2
Weight (g): 77
Patina: No surface patina and yellowish where worn.
Surface: Bronze green colour.
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Hoard of 3 sickles, bronze torques, bracelets, cast ring-pins, looped spearhead, ferrules, awl, 3 knives, etc. 25+X objects.
Description: In fair condition. The metal itself is good. Has been slightly sharpened.
Publications: Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiq. F. C., viii, 147-158,Sir C. Fox, Arch. Cambriensis, Dec. 1941, p. 142, no. 23.