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Description: | Fragment of copper-alloy rib-bladed ?side-looped ?spearhead. The fragment is from the lower part of the blade, and retains part of the midrib/socket. The blade is basically flat, but has a curving rib on both faces which runs roughly parallel to the blade edge, about a third of the way from the edge to the midrib. Deep brown patina. The breaks (paler green/brown) are not recent but are probably not ancient. Surviving length 46 mm, weight 17.0g. The curving rib is unusual. It is likely that it derives from the straight ribs on the Irish kite-shaped side-looped spearheads of the early Middle Bronze Age. It was suggested by Rowlands (1976, 51-2) that variations developed in mainland Britain before the widespread adoption of the side-looped spearhead in the late middle Bronze Age. This may represent one of the these (relatively rare) transitional pieces, although recent radio-carbon dating (Arch. Jnl. 154) suggests that side-looped spearheads were in use in mainland Britain earlier than Rowlands thought - from at least 1500 BC (i.e. the early Middle Bronze Age).
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