Record Details
| NHER Number: | 4918 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Bronze Age rapier |
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Summary
A Bronze Age copper alloy rapier with a very long narrow blade and three ribs was found.
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Location
Full description
Copper alloy rapier 66cm (25.8 inches) long. Very long narrow blade with three ribs, the two side ribs following the curve of the edges. Down each side runs a hollow bevel; hilt plate widely notched. The edges are much injured.
See (S1) and (S2).
R. R. Clarke (NCM).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Finds
- RAPIER (Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Publication: Evans. [unknown]. p.9 316. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Bronze Age. Feltwell. |
| <S1> | Serial: 1893. Cambridge University Reporter. p 4872. |
| <S2> | Publication: Fox, C. 1923. The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region: a topographical study of the Bronze, Early Iron, Roman, and Anglo-Saxon Ages, with an introductory note on the Neolithic Age. p 56; Pl VII.17. |
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