Object: Ring-Socketed Sickle
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evand Collection, 1927.2400.,(Eastwood, 1859).
Site: England,R. Thames,1859.
Discovery context: river
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1859
Length (mm): 136
Width (mm): Height 55
Thickness (mm): Socket 23
Weight (g): 82.26
Patina: unpatinated
Description: Section in ref.2 large rivet holes in socket.,"The blade, which is almost as sharp at the back as at the edge, is not quite central with the socket, but so placed as to make the instrument better adapted for use in the right hand than in the left. The socket tapers considerably, & is closed at the end." (Evans, ABI. cf. cit.)
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p.198-9, Fig. 234.,Fox, PPS 1939 No 2 fig 3