| North Grimston sword | |
|---|---|
| Material | Iron blade and copper alloy hilt |
| Created | 2nd century BC |
| Period/culture | Iron Age |
| Discovered | 1902 North Grimston, North Yorkshire |
| Present location | Hull and East Riding Museum, Hull. |
The North Grimston Sword is a sword dating to the Iron Age found at North Grimston in 1902.[1] It is in the collection of the Hull and East Riding Museum.
Discovery
The sword was found in 1902 and first reported by John Robert Mortimer in 1905 who thought it dated to the Roman period.[2] It was found with another, large, sword, bronze rings, and fragmentary remains of a shield.[1]
Description
The sword has an iron blade with a copper alloy guard, grip, and hilt in the form of a stylised anthropomorphic figure. Stuart Piggott classified it as an 'anthropoid-hilted dagger' and a variant of his broader Group II of Iron Age swords, dating from the second and first centuries BC.[3]
References
- 1 2 "North Grimston Sword". Humber Museums Partnership. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ↑ Mortimer, J. R. (1905). Forty years' researches in British and Saxon burial mounds of East Yorkshire, including Romano-British discoveries, and a description of the ancient entrenchments on a section of the Yorkshire wolds. p. 83.
- ↑ Piggot, Stuart (1950). "Swords and Scabbards of the British Early Iron Age". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 16: 1–28.
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