Poorly Located Find Spot record IKL 331 - Bronze Age sword with hiltmark, River Lark

(At the) quarterly meeting Bury, June 8, 1848 Sir T G Cullum Bart sent a bronze sword which was found about 70 years ago in the bed of the river Lark near Icklingham. (S1).
This bronze sword is a perfect weapon, in citron coloured bronze of the second or narrow form of Sir William Wilde. It is preserved among the antiquities at Hardwick House and was found, over a hundred years ago, in cleaning out the River Lark at Icklingham. This specimen is 24 inches and 2 tenths long, 17 tenths of an inch is the greatest width of the blade, 2 inches and 2 tenths of an inch across the lozenge. It is furnished with the same handle plate as number one , perforated with six rivet holes, in the uppermost of the two in the grip the bronze rivet still remains and is about 6 tenths of an inch long. The blade has no mid rib, but its faces are smooth, sloping away from a slightly thickened centre. The feather edge is sharp and intact (S2). Photographed in (S3), drawn & briefly discussed in (S4).
A hilt mark is still visible.

Formerly recorded as IKL MISC