River Tyne, bronze rapier
River Tyne, bronze rapier
HER Number
1380
District
Newcastle
Site Name
River Tyne, bronze rapier
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Sword
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Said to have been dredged from the north side of the Tyne at Newcastle., but the precise location is unknown. Possibly one of the three daggers which had been in R. Blair's possession before they passed into the Greenwell Collection, and so to the British Museum. The object, 394 mm long, was described as follows: "Broad blade; both rivets surviving in trapezoidal, winged butt. Blade bevelled sharply either side of midrib".
Easting
424000
Northing
563000
Grid Reference
NZ424000563000
Sources
<< HER 1380 >> W. Greenwell, 1889, Ancient British Implements of Bronze etc. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 2, III (for 1887-88), 309
W. Greenwell in W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 207
P. Brewis, 1907, Exhibited, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, II (for 1905-06), opp. p. 194 no. 7
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Prehistoric Period, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 20, 22 no. 16
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 40 and fig. 12 p. 42, no. 15
C.B. Burgess, 1968, Bronze Age Dirks and Rapiers...Durham and Northumberland, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological SocietyDurham and Northumberland, 2, I, pp. 4-5, no. 7
W. Greenwell in W. Page, ed. 1905, Early Man, Victoria County History, Durham, I, 207
P. Brewis, 1907, Exhibited, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3, II (for 1905-06), opp. p. 194 no. 7
M.H. Dodds, 1930, Prehistoric Period, Northumberland County History, XIII, pp. 20, 22 no. 16
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, p. 40 and fig. 12 p. 42, no. 15
C.B. Burgess, 1968, Bronze Age Dirks and Rapiers...Durham and Northumberland, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological SocietyDurham and Northumberland, 2, I, pp. 4-5, no. 7