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Description: | This artefact is a Bronze Age socketed, leaf shaped spearhead with peg holes. The artefact has been broken across its blade. This break shows that the artefact has been made from two pieces for copper alloy which have then been welded together, therefore creating a hollow section. The spearhead is 81.3mm in length. The widest part of the spearhead (blade) measures 40.6mm and the thinnest part measures 39.1mm. The socket of the spearhead (at it's widest) measures 25.8mm and 21.1mm where the socket meets the spearhead proper. The spearhead (width and the thickness) tapers to where the point would have been. The thickness measures 18.2mm where the spearhead begins and tapers down to 11.4mm (at the broken end). The spearhead is in very good condition. I believe that the spearhead would have been broken at the time it was deposited, due to the wear on the break which looks the same as the rest of the find. The peg holes would have been used to fix the spearhead to the shaft. There is an unidentifed copper alloy object inside the socket (see photographs). This could have been inside the artefact when it was originally deposited.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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