Hallstatt C type sword
Medium:Wrought iron with bronze rivets for the attachment of a hilt
Geography: From a tumulus at Melkendorf, near Bamberg, Germany
Date: about 700-600 BCE
Period: Early German Iron Age, Hallstatt C
Dimensions:Main fragment: 6.6 × 50.8 cm (2 5/8 × 20 in.)
Smaller piece: 4.2 × 15.2 cm (1 5/8 × 6 in.)
531.6 g
Object number: 924.94.2