Bronze Age Rapier - Swaites Hill

Reconstruction of a Bronze Age Rapier, dating to the middle Bronze Age (1700-1200BC), recovered during the excavation of a Burial Cairn at Cloburn Quarry, Swaites Hill, South Lanarkshire. As well as the rapier, found by the site director Douglas Gordon, three cremation burials and two urns were also identified. The excavation was carried out by Rathmell Archaeology in 2015.  Scaled Photograph of the rapier.  View of the Cairn site during the 2015 excavations.