A Ceremonial bronze dirk of the ‘Plougrescant-Ommerschans’ type, found in a heath field in the Netherlands, 1500-1350 BCE. In all, only 6 dirks of the ‘Plougrescant-Ommershans’ type are known. 2 were found in France, 2 in England and 2 in the Netherlands [653×1000]
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[https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2022/tnw/taking-a-look-at-the-3000-year-old-sword](https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2022/tnw/taking-a-look-at-the-3000-year-old-sword)
The sword is now housed at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in the Netherlands.
Why are we calling this a “dirk”? A dirk is a fairly specific kind of knife and doesn’t look much like this thing.