READING MUSEUM SERVICE BRONZE AGE FINDS FROM THE RIVER THAMES

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1 READING MUSEUM SERVICE BRONZE AGE FINDS FROM THE RIVER THAMES From the and other sources. AXEHEADS...1 BOWL...3 DAGGERS, DIRKS AND KNIVES...4 POTSHERD...7 SICKLE...7 SPEARS...7 SWORDS, RAPIERS...14 AXEHEADS OBJECT REF.NO $255.1 palstave bronze palstave with well developed flanges and incipient stop ridges Length 7in at Tilehurst, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO $256.1 palstave with cast flanges and pronounced stop ridge at Tilehurst, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO $257.1 socketed axe bronze socketed axe with casting flaw on one surface; marked 'Sept 1937 THAMES BANK WARGRAVE G.W.S.' in black ink At River Thames (bank), Wargrave, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO palstave At Stephens Ait (above), Kingston, Surrey - 1 -

2 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.706 OBJECT REF.NO socketed axe, looped axe length 106mm At Whitchurch, Oxfordshire OBJECT REF.NO palstave length 163mm At Walton Bridge (above), Walton, Surrey British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.325 OBJECT REF.NO palstave At Reading, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO socketed axe, looped axe square socket length 8.9 cm At Reading, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO socketed axe octagonal socket length 10.1 cm At Mapledurham, Oxfordshire - 2 -

3 OBJECT REF.NO flat axe (?) length 137mm At Bray Ferry (400 yds above), Bray, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO palstave length 161 mm At Riverbank Flats, Staines, Middlesex British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.319 OBJECT REF.NO palstave length 172mm At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.324 OBJECT REF.NO socketed axe At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire BOWL OBJECT REF.NO bowl, copper alloy much damaged by dredger diameter 239 mm - 3 -

4 At Railway Bridge (below), Bourne End, Buckinghamshire DAGGERS, DIRKS AND KNIVES OBJECT REF.NO dagger, copper alloy dirk Length 24.4 cm At Sunbury Lock Island, Sunbury, Middlesex Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prahistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.899 pl.110 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1620 OBJECT REF.NO dagger, copper alloy dirk length 271mm At Victoria Bridge (below), Windsor, Old, Berkshire Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prahistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.868 pl.107 OBJECT REF.NO dagger copper alloy long dagger, dirk length 235mm At Railway Bridge (400 yds below), Bourne End, Buckinghamshire Gerloff, S. : 1975 : The Early Bronze Age Daggers of Great Britain : Prähistorische Bronzefunde : VI.2 : no.219 pl.21 OBJECT REF.NO dagger, bone ancient copy of the 'Wessex dagger' type length 245 mm At Fishing Temple Point (between Staines and Laleham), Staines, Middlesex - 4 -

5 Gerloff, S. : 1975 : The Early Bronze Age Daggers of Great Britain : Prähistorische Bronzefunde : VI.2 : no.349 pl.28 OBJECT REF.NO dagger, copper alloy knife, tanged dagger dagger with broad tang (broken) with two rivet holes. Marked "Wands". At Wandsworth, London OBJECT REF.NO dagger, copper alloy camerton/snowshill type length 180 mm At Sandford Lock, Sandford, Oxfordshire OBJECT REF.NO dagger (blade), copper alloy dirk, knife dagger blade, probably the blade of a dirk cut down and notched for rehafting 1937 (before) At Reading, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO dagger/knife, copper alloy dirk length 265mm At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prähistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.594 pl.78 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1624 OBJECT REF.NO $244.1 knife, copper alloy flat knife-dagger, dagger Bronze Age knife from the River Thames at Sonning Length 3 7/8 in - 5 -

6 1891 At Sonning, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO $245.1 knife, copper alloy socketed knife knife blade and handle in two pieces length 10in At Tilehurst, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO knife/dagger, copper alloy tanged knife, dirk At Bell Weir Lock (below), Runnymede, Buckinghamshire Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prahistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.869 pl.107 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1611 OBJECT REF.NO knife/dagger, copper alloy dirk length 315mm At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prahistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.332 pl.40 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1622 pl.44 OBJECT REF.NO knife/dagger, copper alloy socketed knife length 231mm At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire - 6 -

7 OBJECT REF.NO knife/dagger, copper alloy dirk (trumps class i) At Boulters Reach, Maidenhead, Berkshire POTSHERD OBJECT REF.NO potsherd urn, biconical length 115mm At Sutton Courtney Weir Pools, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire SICKLE OBJECT REF.NO [DUP] Sickle, copper alloy socketed sickle At Reading, Berkshire SPEARS OBJECT REF.NO $247.1 spear ferrule, copper alloy ferrule broken in 2 pieces length 7 1/4 in 1890 At Reading (Caversham), Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO peg-hole spearhead, socketed spearhead unusual rounded point length 19 in

8 At Hampton, Middlesex By Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company : 1889 : : Proc. of the Soc. of Antiquaries OBJECT REF.NO $251.1 looped spearhead, socketed spearhead At Tilehurst, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.129 pl.4 OBJECT REF.NO $252.1=2 barbed spearhead, socketed spearhead pair of barbed, pegged and socketed spearheads both spearheads : length 25cm 1909 At Bray, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.16 pl.24 OBJECT REF.NO $254.1 socketed spearhead broken socketed bronze spearhead length 6 1/8 in At Tilehurst, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.130 pl.19 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead length 354mm At Walton Pits, Walton, Surrey - 8 -

9 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1542 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, side-looped spearhead lozenge type side-loops, notch decoration between side-loops and base of blade, socket has round mouth length : 128mm At Ten Foot Bridge (above), Shifford, Oxfordshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.101 pl.6 OBJECT REF.NO spearhead copper alloy socketed spearhead, side-looped spearhead lozenge type side-loops, raised rib on blade length : 136mm At Raven's Ait, Surbiton, Surrey OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, basal-looped spearhead length 314mm, width 46mm (max) At Platt's Ait (above), Molesey, Surrey British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1510 OBJECT REF.NO side looped spearhead Small bronze spearhead with loops on the socket. length 150mm At Cookham, Berkshire - 9 -

10 British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.35 pl.10 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, basal-looped spearhead loops are of the lozenge pattern At Reading, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.131 pl.13 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, peg-hole spearhead 2 small spearheads of pinned type At Cookham, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : (1) no.36 pl.22 (2) no.37 pl.18 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, peg-hole spearhead spearhead with holes for pin in socket length 37.2 cm 1896 (prior to) At Reading, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.132 pl.23 Manning, P., Leeds, E.T : 1921 : An Archaeological Survey of Oxfordshire : Archaeologia : LXXI : p.263 Shrubsole : 1906 : Early Man : Victoria County History of Berkshire : vol.i : p.182 and Plate no.6 opp. p.184 : 1906 (January) : Catalogue of Ethnological Collection of the Reading Museum : : AL4 Stevens, Joseph : 1896 : Descriptive Catalogue of the Reading Museum. Part I. Ethnological Collection : : p.32 OBJECT REF.NO At Surley Hall Point (upstream), Bray, Berkshire

11 British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.32 pl.6 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1433 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead Socketed spearhead with unusual holes and cutouts, similar to length 18 7/8in At Bray Lock (above), Bray, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.17 pl.23 Butler, J.J., Hogestijn, J.W.H. : 1989 : The Tollebeek Spearhead : Palaeohistoria : vol.30 : p , fig.4.9 OBJECT REF.NO barbed spearhead At Maidenhead Railway Bridge (downstream), Maidenhead, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.77 pl.24 OBJECT REF.NO basal-looped spearhead length 290mm At Maidenhead Railway Bridge (downstream), Maidenhead, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.78 pl.17 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1426 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead

12 Socketed spearhead with unusual openwork cutouts in blade. Similar to length 430 mm At Oakley Court, Bray (below), Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.20 pl.23 Butler, J.J., Hogestijn, J.W.H. : 1989 : The Tollebeek Spearhead : Palaeohistoria : vol.30 : p , fig.4.10 OBJECT REF.NO side-looped spearhead spearhead with loops At Windsor, Old, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.138 pl.16 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead length 6.5 in At Sonning, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.102 pl.22 OBJECT REF.NO spearhead copper alloy basal-looped spearhead length 197 mm At Staines Railway Bridge (100ft above), Staines, Middlesex British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1432 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, peg-hole spearhead

13 length 123mm At Cookham Weir, Cookham, Berkshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.38 pl.18 OBJECT REF.NO socketed spearhead, peg-hole spearhead socketed bronze spearhead with 2 opposing rivet holes; in two pieces, part of wooden shaft remaining Rutland Collection length 7.5in 1898 At Thames, Taplow Mills, Taplow, Buckinghamshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.123 pl.18 York, Jill : 2002 : The Life Cycle of Bronze Age Metalwork from the Thames : Oxford Journal of Archaeology : 21(1) : 77-92, fig.6 OBJECT REF.NO basal looped spearhead length 35.5cm At Old Windsor Backwater, Windsor, Old, Berkshire By Coombes, H. (Mr), Thames Conservancy Board British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.139 pl.15 : 1964 : : BAJ : p.108 OBJECT REF.NO barbed spearhead, pegged spearhead length 235mm At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.135 pl

14 OBJECT REF.NO spearhead copper alloy socketed spearhead At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.133 pl.15 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1435 OBJECT REF.NO Spearhead (tip), copper alloy socketed spearhead tip of socketed spearhead, socket now lost Robins Collection 1880 At Benson Lock, Benson, Oxfordshire British Archaeological Reports : 34 : no.12 pl.20 SWORDS, RAPIERS OBJECT REF.NO $253.1 blade of leaf-shaped sword with v-type hilt At Bray, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.286 pl.45 OBJECT REF.NO $253.2 hilt of a leaf-shaped sword with v-type hilt At Bray, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.286 pl

15 OBJECT REF.NO $258.1 v-type hilt only 4 1/2 in At Tilehurst, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.341 pl.53 OBJECT REF.NO $261.1 sword (blade), copper alloy section of leaf-shaped blade length 6 1/2in At Bray, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.372 pl.56 OBJECT REF.NO dirk/rapier length 246mm At Raven's Ait (nr), Kingston, Surrey OBJECT REF.NO rapier length 417mm At Wheatley's Eyot Backwater, Sunbury (?), Middlesex Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prahistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.675 pl.87 OBJECT REF.NO length 534mm

16 At Teddington Weir Pool, Teddington, Middlesex Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.137 pl.23 OBJECT REF.NO sword broken into three fragments, hilt (1), middle (2) and end (3) length 210mm(1),137mm(2),95mm(3) width 54mm(1),48mm(2),36mm(3) At Raven's Ait (nr), Kingston, Surrey Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.192 pl.31 OBJECT REF.NO sword fragment, tip end length 235mm width 56mm (max) At Platt's Eyot, Molesey, Surrey Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.133 pl.23 OBJECT REF.NO length 386mm width 37mm At Quarry Woods (above), Marlow, Buckinghamshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.241 pl.38 OBJECT REF.NO Hallstatt sword early Hallstatt sword Stevens Collection Length 69.1 cm 1880 (circa) At Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire

17 Stevens, Joseph : : Notes on a Bronze Sword and an Iron Spear-head found in the Thames Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.704 pl.101 OBJECT REF.NO length 550mm At Bourne End, Buckinghamshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.298 pl.47 OBJECT REF.NO rapier length 375 mm At Railway Bridge (below), Bourne End, Buckinghamshire Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prahistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.375 pl.48 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1612 OBJECT REF.NO length 546mm At Queen's Ait (above), Bray, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.301 pl.48 OBJECT REF.NO At Headpile Eyot (above), Bray, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.738 pl

18 OBJECT REF.NO rapier length 225mm At Staines-Laleham, Staines, Middlesex Burgess, C.B., Gerloff, S. : 1981 : The Dirks and Rapiers of Great Britain and Ireland : Prähistorische Bronzefunde : VI.7 : no.952 pl.114 British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1913 OBJECT REF.NO rapier At Staines Railway Bridge (100ft downstream), Staines, Middlesex British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1912 OBJECT REF.NO At Bell Weir (above), Runnymede, Surrey OBJECT REF.NO flange-hilted sword At Wargrave, Berkshire OBJECT REF.NO in 2 pieces, 4 rivet holes in tang with 2 rivets remaining length (total) 21in (8.25 and 12.75) 1868 (?) At River Thames, Wallingford, Oxfordshire Peake : : Gazetteer : : : p

19 OBJECT REF.NO At Old Windsor Backwater, Windsor, Old, Berkshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.673 pl.98 OBJECT REF.NO rapier At Wallingford Bridge (below), Wallingford, Oxfordshire British Archaeological Reports : 31 (i+ii) : no.1623 pl.48 OBJECT REF.NO length 562mm At Ravens Ait (opposite), Kingston, Surrey Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.66 pl.11 OBJECT REF.NO length 474mm At Garrick's Eyot, Hampton, Middlesex OBJECT REF.NO At Sandford, Oxfordshire Bronzefunde : IV.5 : Munich : no.221 pl

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ESSEX BRONZE IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS IN THE COLCHESTER MUSEUM.

ESSEX BRONZE IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS IN THE COLCHESTER MUSEUM. BY CHARLES H. BUTCHER. NUMEROUS discoveries of ancient bronze have been made from time to time throughout Essex, but few accounts of what has