Hylton, River Wear, bronze sword

HER Number:
387

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, this one c. 1830. It is of 'Ewart Park' type, with the hilt altered or replaced in modern times. It was recorded as 501 mm long and with a max. width of 42 mm.

Easting:
350

Northing:
569

Grid Reference:
NZ350569

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 387 >> N.R. Whitcomb, 1968, Two Prehistoric Dug-out Canoes from the River Wear at Hylton... Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XLVI, pp. 300-301 Ordnance Survey archaeological record cards, 1977, 2 Late Bronze Age swords R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 62-3, 66, and fig. 20, no. 14