Bronze dagger handle

Collection type: Object
Description: Bronze dagger handle
Geographical reference: Austria
Europe > Western Europe > Austria; Tyrol Matrei
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date
Date collected: ?By 1882
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Incised, Process Riveted
Dimensions: Length x Width x Height: max 168 x 48 x 46 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.119.288 PR no.: 19/ 14860 [19/ 14800 ?]
Research and responses: Note that this object is listed on an insert page [between pages 80 and 81] in vol 1 of the Pitt Rivers Catalogues of the Farnham Museum currently housed in the Cambridge University Library Manuscripts room, the page is headed 'List of Articles to go to Museum' . The object is described as 'Handle of Bronze Roman Sword found nr Matrey Tyrol'. Pitt Rivers was in Austria in July, August and September 1882 according to vol 1. Note that there is an entry in the 'Green book' for two 'bronze daggers forgeries'. These cannot be matched at the present time as there is insufficient information but no daggers are currently identifed as being reproductions. Any of the bronze daggers in the existing catalogue may therefore be reproductions [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

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