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Description: | A bronze side looped spearhead. Complete apart from slight notch at base of one wing, some small surface spalls and edge chipping due to invasive corrosion. There is also a small possibly agricultural scrape to the mid rib. The mid and dark brown patina is consistent apart from areas of medium green corrosion products.
The blade is flat and leaf shaped with edge bevels. The surfaces are somewhat irregular with extensive light hammer tooling marks. The mid-rib is rounded. The broad circular cross-sectioned socket shows marked longitudinal hammered tooling. The loop perforations are sub rectangular with lozenge shaped 'protective plates.'
This spearhead is a group 1 (J Rowlands1976 52), side looped spearhead of middle Bronze Age date. There are only about 25 examples of side looped spearheads known from Suffolk to date. | 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
-1150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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