Details

LOT 511

Bronze Age Bronze Ewart Park Type Sword

(1.03 Kg, 67.5 cm.).

Circa 700-500 BC. A cast bronze sword of 'Ewart Park' type, with raised flanges on the everted hilt and a series of perforations to accommodate the organic components; the blade is decorated with an incised linear border; the ricasso rounded; the blade with prominent central ridge.

Provenance

Found near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England 1977.

Literature

See Moore, C.N. and Rowlands, M. Bronze Age Metalwork in Salisbury Museum, plate XIV for a similar example; see Evans, J. The Ancient Bronze Implements Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 273-288 for a number of similar examples and for discussion.

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