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Description: | Copper-alloy basal-looped or pegged spearhead, very worn and corroded. The base of the socket and possible loops, plus the tip, are missing, along with much of the wings. The wings were probably originally quite narrow, as edge bevels survive in two small areas. The midrib is rounded. Possible basal loops are suggested by spurs at the base of the wings, with gaps above. Although it is possible that the base of originally solid unlooped wings have merely corroded away leaving these spurs, and that this is therefore a pegged spearhead, the long narrow form and concave channels beside the midrib are more characteristic of basal-looped examples. Typologically the channels and rounded midrib accord with Rowland (1976) Class 3 basal-looped spearheads, dating to the end of the middle Bronze Age. Although the small size is unusual for basal-looped spearhead, note Rowlands 1976, pl. 40, 1585, another very short example, from Felixstowe, Suffolk. The spearhead is patinated dark green, with extensive small pale green invasive corrosion pocks. Surviving length 111mm, surviving width 24 mm, maximum socket diameter 15 mm, weight (including soil inside socket) 45.8g. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -1500
-1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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