Find Spot record 15136 - Bronze Age Dagger from Bickley

<1> Portable Antiquities Scheme, Various, Portable Antiquities Data Import, LVPL1683 (Digital Archive). SCH5212.

A bronze dagger or knife blade, tapering with incipient mid rib almost the width of the blade, slightly damaged at handle end, to partial rivet holes. Only small amount of original surface remains. There is a similar example from Plymstock, Devon in the British Museum (see 2 & 3).

<2> Way, A., 1869, Antiquities of Bronze Found in Devonshire, p.346-9 (Article in Journal). SCH9326.

<3> Britton, D., 1963, Traditions of Metal-Working in the Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Britain: Part 1 (Article in Journal). SCH9327.

<4> The British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme Online Database, LVPL1683 (Web Site). SCH5176.