- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze dagger blade
- Geographical reference
- Bretagne Côtes-d'Armor Pleudihen-sur-Rance excavations for railway bridge, possibly near L'Essart or L'Andelles
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain Archaeological period: Roman, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1877 May or 1879
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Bronze Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Length: max 290 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.274 PR no.: 29/ 9433
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in a line drawing in Figure 26 (no. 1) on page 89 of Les dépôts Bretons et l’age du bronze atlantique (Travaux de laboratoire d’anthropolgie préhistorique de la Faculté des Sciences du Rennes), by Jacques Briard (Rennes, 1965); also listed under number 117 on page 307 of ‘Inventaire sommaire des dépôts bretons’: ‘117. VICOMTE-SUR-RANCE (LA). Le Lessart ou Les Landelles. Mai 1877. 4 épées, 3 poignards, 4 p[oin]tes de lance, 5 h[aches]. à reb[ords]., 1 pierre à aiguiser (D. 165; 1 épée M.A.N. [Musée des Antiquités Nationales]; 3 h[aches]. à reb[ords]., 4 épées et poignards, 1 p[oin]te de lance décorée, M[usée]. Pitt Rivers, Oxford.’ [JC 5 11 2019] Illustrated in colour in Fig. 7.34 and listed as part of catalogue entry number 174 on page 314 of the section of the catalogue devoted to 'Comparative Material from Continental Europe', in Symbols of Power at the Time of Stonehenge, by D. V. Clarke, T. G. Cowie and Andrew Foxon (Edinburgh: National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland / Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1985). Caption to the figure: ‘7.34 Metalwork hoard from Lessart, Côtes-du-Nords, Brittany, France (174)’. Catalogue entry: ‘174 Metalwork hoard / Lessart or Landelles, near Pleudihen, La Vicomté-sur-Rance, Côtes-du-Nord, Brittany, France...174.4 Bronze rapier blade. Expanded hilt-plate now damaged but showing traces of 2 or more rivet-notches or holes. An omega-shaped line defined partly by differential corrosion and partly by fine cut-marks, indicates the lower edge of the now decayed hilt. L 292 mm. 1884.119.274’. [JC 1 11 2019]
1884.119.274
Bronze dagger blade
1884.119.274
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