Accession No

1883.167 A


Description

Dirk with damaged trapezoidal butt and two rivet-holes, one torn. Traces of curved hilt mark on one side. The blade edges are damaged.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Manea


Period

Early Bronze Age


Source

Cambridge Antiquarian Society [donor]; Deck, Isaiah [collector]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1883.167 A; MAA: PB 122; B 12


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Bronze


Local Term


Measurements

56mm x 226mm


Events

Description (CMS Description)
Two rivet holes, one damaged; Surface pitted. Edge of blade damaged. Edge of hilt damaged; Tip of blade missing; Plain
'CAS Register adds: "fluted edges." S-J Harknett 11/10/2004'
Event Date 20/10/1988
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: Deck, Isaiah in 1838.
'Label in B.C.R. Register reads: "Camb. Antiq. Soc. Found near Maney, Isle of Ely, 1838. From the late Mr.I.Deck's Collection, 1854" S-J Harknett 18/10/2004'
Event Date 20/10/1988
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Trump, B.A.V. 1968. 'Fenland Rapiers' in Studies in Ancient Europe: Essays Presented to Stuart Piggott. Leicester: Leicester University Press. p. 223

Event Date 28/11/2016
Author: Ben Hinson


Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Trump, B.A.V. 1962. 'The Origin and Development of British Middle Bronze Age Rapiers'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 28. No. 20 p. 95
Event Date 28/11/2016
Author: Ben Hinson


Description (CMS Description)
After Burgess and Gerloff: Dirk with damaged trapezoidal butt and two rivet-holes, one torn. Traces of curved hilt mark on one side. The blade edges are damaged.
Event Date 28/11/2016
Author: Ben Hinson


Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Burgess, C. and S. Gerloff. 1981. The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland (Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung IV, 7.Band). CH Beck: Munich. Catalogue No. 463, p. 63, Pl. 60.463

Event Date 28/11/2016
Author: Ben Hinson


Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Rowlands, M.J. 1976. The Production and Distribution of Metalwork in the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Britain (BAR 31). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. No. 1679, p. 401
Event Date 28/11/2016
Author: Ben Hinson


Context (CMS Context)
Written on the blade in black ink: 'MANEA'
Event Date 5/12/2016
Author: Ben Hinson


FM:13351

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