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Description: | Incomplete Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis' Class IV, consisting of the socket, loops and lower part of the blade only.The socket-end has been widened and the metal here is rather thin - 0.5mm with a 20mm diameter compared with 2mm thick and a 17mm diameter 6mm above.c.14mm from the socket end the section of the socket becomes a square-on-its-points. This continues into the blade, where it becomes the mid-rib, and to the break. The loops are placed about two thirds of the distance from the socket to the bottom of the blade, nearer to the blade. The loops are an elongated pointed oval in shape with a hole drilled through the side, encroaching partly on the outside of the socket.The blade is 'flame' shaped, very thin, and mangled in appearance with recent breaks - no doubt the outcome of a meeting with the plough. The edges are bevelled though very little original patina remains on the blade (whereas it is intact elsewhere). At the break the mid-rib is a square-on-its-points, either side narrowing to the cutting edge. There is a 2.5mm diameter ?socket very off-centre. Possibly this cause a weakening in the spearhead at this point.Incomplete length 131.5, max width (blade) 36mm. Weighs 66.16g.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.
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