A bronze dagger, sword, and cup were found by chance in 1862 and 1863 in the Seine flood plain at Varenne in the town of Melun. These objects, which can be dated to the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, were considered for a long time to be Gallo-Roman because of the sizeable number of antique vestiges discovered in the same period in this particular area. The weapons, according to Gabriel Leroy’s written account of the discovery, were linked to a burial. The context of the cup can not however be specified. The typology of the three objects evokes a non-local production. The fragmented sword has a tripartite tongue and a straight blade. It belongs to the Reutlingen type and bears strong similarities to examples from the eponymous necropolis...