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Description: | Copper alloySword fragment. Cast upper blade and ricasso from a sword of Ewart Park type, found as two separate fragments (a and b) topographically close to each other, but several months apart (the grid reference cited is that reported for the larger fragment). The blade is of lentoid section with three low longitudinal ridges extending along both sides from about the position of the ricasso towards the hilt (now lost). The four fracture surfaces on the two fragments all appear fresh, suggesting the object has been recently fragmented by the plough. This, however, appears to have struck at a position already weakened by bending, whether recently by modern disturbance, or in antiquity, is uncertain. These objects were discovered at a site which subsequently yielded unambiguous evidence for the ritual deposition of a sword and related items (NLM-F5AEB0 et al.). Suggested date: Late Bronze Age, 1000-800 BC.Length: 101mm, Width: 33mm, Thickness (clear of ridges): 4.4mm, and including ridges: 5.9mm; Weight: 53.13gms
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