1884.119.262

Collection type

Object

Description

Bronze dagger blade

Long description

Dagger blade, with three rivet holes. One rivet remaining in hole, one loose.

Geographical reference

Ireland, Republic of

Europe > Northern Europe > Ireland, Republic of

"Ireland": ie Ireland or Northern Ireland (UK)

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Early Bronze Age

Date collected

By 1874

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Riveted

Dimensions

Length x Width x Height: max 128 x 35 x 10 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.119.262 PR Cat other PR nos: 2610

Research and responses

Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4]. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Associated publications

For description, analysis, and a line drawing, see 'Report 5. Early Bronze Age Dagger (P.R. 1488)' and 'Report 5a: Early Bronze Age Flat-Head Rivet from Dagger (P.R. 1488)', including Figure 6, on page 88 of 'A Metallurgical Study of Four Irish Early Bronze Age Ribbed Halberds in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford: A Report to the Ancient Mining and Metallurgy Committee', by T. K. Penniman and I. M. Allen, in Man, Vol. 60, no. 6 (June 1960), art. 120, pp. 85-89. [JC 11 7 2008] Listed as number 93 under category 'A. Daggers', sub-category 'Miscellaneous Daggers with Triangular Decoration'. on page 16 of The Daggers and the Halberds of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland (Prähistorische Bronzefunde, VI, 1), by Peter Harbison (Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Oscar Beck), 1969): '93. Provenance unknown. Pitt-Rivers Mus., Oxford (P. R. 1488). Penniman, Allen, Man 60, 1960 No. 120 Fig. 6 (decoration omitted in drawing) (Pl. 6, 93).' See also line-drawing in Plate 6 (unpaginated). Photocopy in RDF. [JC 24 7 2008] Published in Allen, I.M., Britton, D., and Coghlan, H.H., 1970, 'Metallurgical Reports on British and Irish Bronze Age Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum', Occasional Papers on Technology 10, Oxford University Press, Oxford. [CMP 09/08/2010] p 98 - gives this accession number and matches it with PR number but says there is no provenance and measurements do not match Accession Book [Drawing] [Metallographic examination and analysis provided] p93 - Sn 5.8%, Pb 0.02%, As 0.36%, Sb 0.1%, Ni 0.017%, Fe 0.029% - Confirmed as a bronze [GB 24/5/2005]

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