Rapier
- Description
- This is one of three Bronze Age rapiers in the museum collections that were found in a hoard of six items in 1867. These stabbing swords had handles attached with bronze rivets.
- Accession Loan No.
- A313
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Common Name
- rapier
- Simple Name
- rapier
- Dimensions
- whole length 578 mm; whole W 50 mm; whole depth 8 mm
- Period Classification
- Bronze Age (2600-700 BC)
- Family Group
- Material
- copper alloy
- Collection Site Name
- Talaton
- Collection Town
- Talaton
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
