Hylton, River Wear, bronze sword

HER Number:
386

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hylton, River Wear, bronze sword

Place:
Hylton

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Sword

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

Form of Evidence:
Find

Description:
One of two swords dredged from the River Wear at Ford near Hylton in c. 1910 by Mervyn Wake and presented to Sunderland Museum by Dr. D. Wawn. It is of 'Ewart Park' type, with the hilt altered or replaced in modern times. It was recorded as 428 mm long and with a max. width of 45 mm.

Easting:
350

Northing:
569

Grid Reference:
NZ350569

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 386 >> N.R. Whitcomb, 1968, Two Prehistoric Dug-out Canoes from the River Wear at Hylton... Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, pp. 300-301 R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 62-63, 66, and fig. 20, no. 13