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Title: Sword hilt fragment
Item Name: Armour and Weapons
Description:
Culture: Iron Age
Materials: copper alloy; iron
Measurements: Diam:1.5cm; Ht:1.1cm
ID_Number: ERYMS : 2005.99.17
Item Name: Armour and Weapons
Description:
Find RF101, a slightly domed copper alloy cap from a sword hilt, with decoration around the base. Traces of iron inside. Context 1003. From soil block lifted during excavation. Part of the South Cave Weapons Cache of 5 late Iron Age swords/scabbards and 33 iron spearheads, found by metal detectorists in September 2002. The site was subsequently excavated by Humber Field Archaeology and York Archaeological Trust. The cache was buried in a pit, dug into a pre-existing boundary ditch of a late Iron age/early Romano-British settlement. The finds date to about 70AD.
Culture: Iron Age
Materials: copper alloy; iron
Measurements: Diam:1.5cm; Ht:1.1cm
ID_Number: ERYMS : 2005.99.17