Bronze Age Ballintober Type Short Sword. 1300-800 B.C. Waisted leaf-shaped blade with rounded tip, stepped edges, flared shoulders with holes to accept fixing rivets, flat tang with rivet hole and part of another at the broken end; blade restored; inked legend 'IRELAND / Monaghan'. Cf. Burgess, C. & Colquhoun, I., The Swords of Britain, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, Ab. IV, vol.5, Munich, 1988, item 48. 335 grams, 37.8 cm (14 7/8 in.). [No Reserve] Believed found Monaghan, Ireland. with Christie’s New York, 13 December 1980, no.22 Subsequently Olympia Auctions, 26 June 2024, no.120.