Object: Sword
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Folkstone Museum
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood, on line of railway cutting 6 ft below surface, lying on stratum of sand c. 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill,Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIN NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 101
Width (mm): 49.5
Thickness (mm): 6 across blade section
Weight (g): 113
Patina: Green brown, mostly green.
Surface: Rather rough.
Associations: Part of a large hoard; now consisting of: 5 socketed celts; 16 fragments of socketed celts; 2 spearheads V; 2 spearhead fragments; 14 sword fragments; 2 sicket fragments; 2 socketed knife fragments; 3 bracelet fragments; 1 socketed gouge; 1 looped mount; 1 chape; 1 chisel; 1 disc; miscasting of a socket; 1 linch pin; 14 lumps; and some pieces now missing, see Evans & Arch. Journ. XXX
Description: Fragment consisting of part of hilt, shoulders, and part of blade. Hilt broken across a rivet hole, below is another with rivet still in place. Two rivet holes in each shoulder, one of them being stopped up. Shoulders straight; except for a slight rounding at their points, Ricasso notches. Blade broken off 10mm below ricasso notches. Hilt is irregularly cast.Traces of wood still adhering round rivet in hilt
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Evans,Journ. Anthrop. Inst. III, 230,Jessup, Arch. of Kent, 107