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Description: | Complete Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis Class IV, with badly damaged blades and coated recently in preservative, giving the spearhead a very shiny appearance. The socket is 17mm in diameter (internal 14mm) with a mid-rib equidistant between the casting seams on both sides. This extends the length of the spearhead. The socket narrows over 56mm to 8x8mm just below the wings, where it is square in section. The loops are slightly lop-sided and roughly two thirds between socket end and wings, nearer to the latter. They are oval in section, looping out and in again with a 2mm diameter hole between, which does not impose on the socket itself. The wings have angular shoulders but otherwise a flame-shaped blade. The damage appears recent. Length 125mm, max width (base of wings) 19mm. Weighs 39.68g. Ref. Greenwell, W. & Brewis, W.P. (1909), 'The origin, evolution and classification of the bronze spearhead in Great Britain and Ireland', Archaeologia 61, part 2
Side-looped spearheads date to the Taunton phase, c.1400-1250 BC. | 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: | -1400
-1250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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