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Orkney Smr Note
Event ID 620950
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/620950
Dagger found by Mr F Inkster, Innister, Rousay, while peat-
cutting in the spring of 1905, in Flanders Moss. It consists, in
its present condition, of a thin flat blade of bronze, about 6in
long inserted into a horn haft. It is attached to the haft by
three bronze rivets, which are through the butt of the blade where
it is broadest, measuring 2.25in across. The blade tapers to a
sharp point, it is about one sixteenth of an inch thick, and
sharpened on both faces for about an eighth of an inch from the
edge.
The haft is one piece of ox horn, and is shaped in the form
of the letter Y. It measures three and a quarter inches long x
two and three-eighth inches broad and half an inch thick.
[R1]
The surface of the dagger blade has a slightly uneven
hammered appearance, and the bevelled edges are slightly
concave. Three rivets hold the hilt in place.
The hilt is made of one piece of horn. The total length of
the dagger was 20.5cm. [R2]
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
