Newcastle, River Tyne, bronze rapier

HER Number:
1380

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, River Tyne, bronze rapier

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Armour and Weapons

Site Type: Broad:
Weapon

Site Type: Specific:
Rapier

General Period:
Prehistoric

Specific Period:
Bronze Age

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:
24

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ2463

Lats/Lons:

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