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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy socketed spearhead. The fragment is an elongated triangle in plan. The tip and lower edges are both broken. These breaks are not too recent, but a patina has not developed over them. The lower break has a sub-lentoid section, with the upper and lower corners being curved and the side corners having blunt points. The curvature is the start of the socket and there is a central conical indentation on the broken edge. The side edges of the blade are abraded and blunt having lost their original surface. The surface of the spearhead has an incomplete heavy dark brown patina. The spear measures 43.49mm long, 14.02mm wide and 7.76mm thick. It weighs 9.64g.
The heavy patina, and shape in section suggest this is a Bronze Age spearhead. However, as the majority of the object is missing, which has the diagnostic features such as side-loops missing the dating cannot be narrowed down further. | Subjects: | Socketed | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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