Record ID: LON-CCEF56
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age short sword with copper alloy scabbard elements dating from 100 BC - 43 AD. The sword is corroded and missing part of the tang. Parts of the scabbard remain. The chape frame is a type a2 lobed chape end. The scabbard was approximately mm long, represented by a copper alloy plate at the mouth a copper alloy chape; the main body of the scabbard may have been of an organic material either leather or wood. The short copper alloy front plate is mm wide and mm deep, with a low campanulate mouth (about mm) high. The reverse of the plate has a iron rivet. The mouth desi…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
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Record ID: IARCH-7BB717
Object type: RING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The iron ring is essentially undateable and undiagnostic. Report by J Farley and I Leins. Analysis by Susan La Niece & Antony Simpson: Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) was carried out on the surface of two items associated. XRF detected only iron and manganese on the ring: the blue powder on the surface is a corrosion product of iron. There is nothing distinctive about the composition of this ring by which to date it.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Putney', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: IARCH-15B29C
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The small composite mount could date to the Iron Age, but could also be significantly later. As no clear parallel can be found for the latter object, there is no strong reason to associate either the ring or the mount with the coin hoard. Report by J Farley and I Leins. Analysis by Susan La Niece & Antony Simpson: The composite mount is composed of a decorated bronze (alloy of copper and tin) strip soldered onto an iron band. The central section of the strip has a copper cap. These metals are likely to have been deliberately chosen for the decorative effect of their different colou…
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Putney', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: LON-047293
Object type: DAGGER
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron dagger in a wooden sheath, dating to the iron age. The piece measures 00mm in overall length, 00mm in width and is 00mm thick; it weighs 00g. It comprises a long slender iron dagger housed within an ash-wood sheath. Both are in a reasonable state of preservation although the dagger's organic hilt-plates and pommel, and the sheath's suspension loop(s) and chape, are missing. Initial cleaning of the surface corrosion products on the sheath in the laboratory by Rebecca Lang has revealed negative traces clearly demonstrating the former existence of a series of overlapping ? copper al…
Created on: Friday 3rd December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bermondsey', grid reference and parish protected.