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North Grimston sword

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North Grimston sword
MaterialIron blade and copper alloy hilt
Created2nd century BC
Period/cultureIron Age
Discovered1902
North Grimston, North Yorkshire
Present locationHull 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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b "North Grimston Sword". Humber Museums Partnership. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Piggot, Stuart (1950). "Swords and Scabbards of the British Early Iron Age". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 16: 1–28.