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Description: | Bronze spearhead, socketed, leaf-shaped blade, no loops or peg-holes, Possibly an unfinished spear-head as it lacks rivet holes
"Bronze spearheads were made throughout the Bronze Age, but most come from the middle and later periods. The later types of spearhead have a socket for hafting and loops or rivets to secure them to the shaft. In Scotland the leaf-bladed form is earliest, followed by triangular bladed types. Later spearheads have a socket extending along the full length of the spearhead. They may have been used in warfare or single combat. This long spearhead has a leaf-shaped blade, with rounded shoulders and straight edges, and a central rounded rib. The stem of the socket is short, uneven and notched, suggesting that it has been broken at the rivet holes. This type of spearhead was usually made in Ireland and may have been imported from there. It dates from the later Bronze Age, about 1100-750BC, and was found in Aberdeenshire."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Callander, J Graham Dr | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1200 BC-600 BC; LBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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