Poorly Located Find Spot record BRD 392 - Findspot of a Bronze-Age bronze rapier with trapezoid tang

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Summary

Bronze rapier with trapezoid tang with two corner rivet holes, one incomplete, other containing rivet. Formerly recorded as BRD MISC

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 75 85 (10000m by 10000m) Poorly located
Map sheet TL78NE
Civil Parish BRANDON, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Bronze rapier with trapezoid tang with two corner rivet holes, one incomplete, other containing rivet. Flat mid-rib blade section. Length 38.05 cms, weight 22.68 gms. From `Brandon' late MBA (S1-S5).

Formerly recorded as BRD MISC

Sources/Archives (5)

  • <S1> (No record type): Pendleton C, The Distribution of BA Metalwork in NW Suffolk, BA dissertation, Nottingham, 1985, numb.
  • <S2> (No record type): Trump B A V, `Fenland Rapiers' in Coles J M & Simpson D D A (eds), Studies in Ancient Europe, 1968, .
  • <S3> Bibliographic reference: Rowlands M J. 1976. The Organisation of Middle Bronze Age Metalworking. number 1889.
  • <S4> (No record type): Trump B A V, PPS, 28, 1962, 238.
  • <S5> (No record type): BM, National Bronze Implements Catalogue, (ill).

Finds (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:47AM

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