Leaf-shaped sword
This Bronze Age sword was found by fishermen dredging for mussels on a sandbank off Exmouth Beach called Pole Sands. How did it get there? Was it buried on the land and then wash out to sea or did someone make an offering out at sea?
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 574/1911
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- leaf-shaped sword
- Simple Name
- sword
- Period Classification
- Late Bronze Age (1200-700 BC)
