A NORTH EUROPEAN BALLOCK DAGGER, 16TH/17TH CENTURY AND LATER in excavated condition, with tapering slender blade of wedge-shaped section, stamped twice with a stylised crown mark on one side, iron cross-piece with a pair of short down-turned arms moulded at the base, and later yew wood grip of characteristic form 26.5 cm; 10 1/2 in blade Provenance The River Thames