Bronze Age dagger and sword, Mar Dyke, North of North Stifford (EHER 5141)
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Summary
Bronze Age dagger and sword found in the Mar Dyke in around 1867.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | TQ 6014 8048 (point) |
|---|---|
| Unitary Authority | THURROCK, ESSEX |
Type and Period
Description
Bronze Age implements found in the Mar Dyke. <1> <2> <3>
Bronze sword found in the Mar Dyke. Leaf-shaped blade, sword is 610 mm (24") long. Found around 1869. Some confusion over the NGR. OS gives the NGR used above. On some sheets as TQ 594804. The NGR used here "is by no means 100% correct". <4>
A sword or spearhead was also found. The sword had 6 rivet holes in hiltplate, 3 rivets still in situ. <5> <6> <7>
Finds in Thurrock Museum? <8>
Site Assessment = Accession numbers?
Information from NRHE
A bronze dagger-blade 377 mm (15 1/4 inches) long with two notches at the hilt end was found at Stifford (TQ 6080) in the bed of the Mar Dyke in around 1867.
A bronze leaf-shaped sword-blade, 584 mm (23 inches) long, and retaining four of its six rivets was found about half a mile below it on the surface of the peat of the Mar Dyke. <9>
Additional reference. <10>
Finds
Sources
- --- SEX60945 Desk-Based Assessment: Bennett, A.. 1988. The North Thames Gas Pipeline.
- --- SEX68863 DESC TEXT: Historic Landscape Management. 2002. Mardyke Valley Project; A Brief Landscape History of the Mardyke Valley.
- <1> SEX52658 RECORD SHEET/FORM: Ordnance Survey. 1950-1990. OS cards. TQ68SW08, 1950.
- <2> SEX77999 Serial: Royal Archaeological Institute. 1869. The Archaeological Journal, Volume 26. 26. p.130.
- <3> SEX17713 Serial: Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society. 1869. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society. 1(4). p 111, 120.
- <4> SEX17714 DESC TEXT: Savory, L.?. unknown. SMR.
- <5> SEX4 DESC TEXT: Unknown. 1960 onwards. SMR form unknown.
- <6> SEX6057 LIST: Thurrock Museum. unknown. Thurrock Museum Register.
- <7> SEX6039 DESC TEXT: Palin. 1871. DESC TEXT by Palin. p41, 75.
- <8> SEX6104 Artifact: Thurrock Museum ?. unknown. ARTEFACT Thurrock Museum?.
- <9> SEX77461 Serial: Society of Antiquaries of London. 1867. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume 3. 3. p 406.
- <10> SEX76166 Bibliographic reference: Burgess, C.B. and Gerloff, S.. 1981. The dirks and rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Other References
- Old SMR Number: TQ68-029
- NRHE identifier: 414132
- National Monuments Record: TQ 68 SW 8