Find Spot record 1573000000 - Thames Find spot - Taplow

Summary

Early Iron Age Anthropoid dagger and sheath (imported)

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Type and Period (1)

  • FINDSPOT (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

Description

An anthropoid dagger (Hawkes and Clarke B.2 variant), found with, but not in, a bronze scabbard (Piggott's Group 1) in the R. Thames, by the ferry at the foot of Clifden (Clivedin) Wood in 1858. Now in the British Museum, dated 2nd/3rd cent. B.C (B1-2).

The ferry at the foot of Cliveden Wood will be My Lady Ferry, at SU 9082 8486 (B3).

Sources (4)

  • <1>XYSBC28322 Unpublished document: 1950. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1950. [Mapped feature: #52135 ]
  • <2>SBC28323 Unpublished document: 1955. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1955. p207-207, 226.
  • <3>SBC28324 Verbal communication: E Geary. 1963. Field Investigators Comments - F1 EG 08-FEB-63.
  • <4>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference SU 90835 84863 (point) NRHE GIS
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (2)

  • DAGGER (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
  • SCABBARD (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)

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Record last edited

Nov 7 2025 2:18PM

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