Bronze rapier: middle bronze age
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Bronze rapier, a light slender sword used for thursting. This rapier has a trapezoidal butt, two rivet-holes and two plug-rivets. It has a long central ridge that extends along the blade. Two shorter ridges run up along either side with traces of omega hilt-mark. This rapier was probably found in the Thames at Twichenham.
Date
1400 BC - 1275 BC
Image Number
000248