Object: Sword
Classification: Leaf shaped
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,MB CCC LXX, Acton Collection 627
Site: Site unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 536
Width (mm): blade 44; hilt plate 54, 28.5
Thickness (mm): 1.75, 7.5, 2, 6.5
Weight (g): 559.91
Patina: Some black patina on hilt plate, round the rivets + traces of patina here + there on blade.
Surface: Smooth
Description: The bevels, along edges are very slight indeed. At the point they are sharply defined for about 22mm. Splendidly preserved. Curious incisions, from shoulders of hilt plate to where bevels start on blade edge.