River Wear, bronze dirk or rapier
River Wear, bronze dirk or rapier
HER Number
389
District
Sunderland
Site Name
River Wear, bronze dirk or rapier
Place
Claxheugh
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Findspot
Site Type: Specific
Dirk
General Period
PREHISTORIC
Specific Period
Bronze Age -2,600 to -700
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
A bronze rapier said to have been found on the north shore of the Wear at (or, presumably, opposite) Claxheugh. It is 326 mm long and complete except for one torn rivet hole.
Easting
435900
Northing
557700
Grid Reference
NZ435900557700
Sources
<< HER 389 >> W. Page, ed. 1905, Victoria County History, Durham, p. 207, and plate opp. p. 206
B.A.V. Trump, 1962, The origin and development of British Middle Bronze Age rapiers,Proceedings Prehistoric Society, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 80-102
C.B. Burgess 1968, Bronze Age Dirks and Rapiers...from Durham and Northumberland, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham & Northumberland, New Series, Vol. I, pp. 4-5 and fig. 2, no. 8
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 62 and 66, fig. 20, no. 12
B.A.V. Trump, 1962, The origin and development of British Middle Bronze Age rapiers,Proceedings Prehistoric Society, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 80-102
C.B. Burgess 1968, Bronze Age Dirks and Rapiers...from Durham and Northumberland, Transactions Architectectural & Archaeological Society of Durham & Northumberland, New Series, Vol. I, pp. 4-5 and fig. 2, no. 8
R. Miket, 1984, The Prehistory of Tyne and Wear, pp. 62 and 66, fig. 20, no. 12