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.
| 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. |
Discovery edit
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ a b "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.