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Description: | A Late Bronze Age copper alloy socketed spearhead (1150 - 800BC). The spearhead has a leaf-shaped blade with the angle approximately two thirds down the length of the blade towards the socket. There is a pronounced mid-rib extending to the tip that is probably hollow; concretions in the socket obscure the view. There are polishing lines along the edge bevels on both the lower and upper surfaces. Two circular rivet holes are present, aligned on opposite sides 23.63mm up from the open-end of the socket. Patches of bright blue green bronze disease present on the blades and socket, dark green patina on the rest of the surface.The spearhead is very similar to no. 389 in the Ewart assemblage (Rohl & Needham 1998:135).Dimensions: length: 203.91mm; width: 46.50mm; thickness: 30.06mm; weight: 240.89g.Reference: Rohl, B. and Needham, S. 1998. The Circulation of Metal in the British Bronze Age: The Application of Lead Isotope Analysis. British Museum Occasional Paper No. 102. British Museum Press: London.
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