The three bronze daggers were found in the River Ljubljanica at Blatna Brezovica. As with swords (Figs. 226, 230), the bronze daggers also developed from those with a handguard plate in the Middle Bronze Age (bottom) to the flange-hilted examples in the Late Bronze Age (top). The dagger with a trapezoid handguard plate is a rare find in Slovenia. Similar examples were common goods in the graves of men of the central European Tumulus culture, in the 16th and 15th centuries (cf. chapter on Tumuli, memorials of the ancestors). The flange-hilted daggers with a split pommel have close parallels in the numerous daggers offered into the River Mincio, where it flows from Lake Garda; these daggers date to the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age (14th–13th centuries BC).