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Description: | 2008 T86 addendum: Bronze Age Hoard: Additional spear fragmentDescription:Length 52.6 millimetres; width 16.5 millimetres; depth 10 millimetres; weight 12 grammes (to the nearest gramme). The item is copper-alloy and presumably bronze (an alloy of copper and tin), although no metallurgical analysis has been undertaken. We are dealing with the tip of a socketed copper-alloy spear blade. Its deep and rounded midrib is flanked by narrow wings with what were originally more or less straight edges. Bearing in mind the configuration of the tip, the original was a evidently a long and slender weapon. Corrosion has removed most of the original surface and the end of the tip itself is blunt. The abraded condition of the piece suggests movement in plough soil since deposition in antiquity.It was found in the same field as the 2008 T86 hoard, and was only 15 metres distant from the main body of the finds discovered beforehand. The spear fragment is most likely to be part of the same, dispursed hoard.Dr Paul R. Sealey, Curator of Archaeology at Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service.BibliographyDavies, D.G., 1979. 'Hatfield Broad Oak, Leigh, Rayne, Southchurch: late Bronze Age hoards from Essex', in C.B. Burgess and D.G. Coombs (eds)Bronze Age Hoards: Some Finds Old and New (British Archaeological Reports, British Series 67) (Oxford), 149-72Needham, S.P., 1980. 'The bronzes', in D. Longley, Runnymede Bridge 1976: Excavations on the Site of a Late Bronze Age Settlement (Research Volume of the Surrey Archaeological Society 6) (Guildford), 13-27Needham, S.P., 2007. '800 BC, the great divide', in C.C. Haselgrove and R.E. Pope (eds), The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent (Oxford), 39-63
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