Prehistoric — Middle Bronze Age; c. 1150BC
Sword
Bronze flange-hilted sword with leaf-shaped blade, U-shaped shoulder and pommel tang. Hilt has slot and six rivet-holes on the shoulder. Decorated with incised lines down the length of the blade. When first recovered in 1835 it had a wooden or bone grip that disintegrated on handling by the finders. Industrial phase: Late Penard. Type: Limehouse - a British copy of an Erbenheim type sword (Burgess and Colquhoun 1988).
- Category:
- Prehistoric
- Object ID:
- C876
- Object name:
- sword
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- Production date:
- Middle Bronze Age; c. 1150BC
- Material:
copper alloy
- Measurements/duration:
- L 801 mm, W 63 mm, W (terminal) 29 mm, W (maximum blade width) 48 mm, T 13 mm
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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