sword;
handle
- Museum number
- 1868,1228.286
- Description
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Tin bronze sword handle fragment: three pairs of smooth circumferential ribs on hollow hilt and triple arcuate lines on pommel; Mörigen - Müller-Karpe variant 1. Omega-shaped hilt line; one end of hilt-guard missing, other retaining broken round-headed rivet.
- Dimensions
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Length: 101 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Orlinska 2001
Findspot: Sachsen; 'Sachsen'; im sächsischen Elbthale; "Saxony". Imprecise location.
References: C III, 9 ('Dolch, Schwert, Säbel u. Degen'); IV, 11 ('Kopfschmuck und Toilettengegenstände. Haarnadeln'); GA no. 364 ('locality unknown'); GERM. III, 'Schwerdt'; Klemm 1854a, 184, fig. 287; Sprockhoff 1934, 121, no. 47; Uenze 1990, 41, no. 46, pl. 13.2.
See Appendix 2, Table 1.29 (p. 40) for analysis results.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1868,1228.286
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Klemm.67