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Description: | Cast copper-alloy socketed spearhead. Probably middle to late bronze age (c. 1500BC to 800BC). Mass: 31.8g; length: 110.7mm; width: 23.2mm; thickness: 11.4mm (at the base). The spearhead is leaf shaped in plan, broken across the socket at the base, with an oval sectioned midrib which tapers towards the tip. In section the wings are triangular. The break does not appear recent based on the surface appearance. Whilst pitted in areas, portions of the surface retain a well developed brown patina. This spearhead is probably one of the main types of spearhead current in the middle bronze age (kite bladed, side-looped, or basal looped, see Ehrenberg, 1977, p6-12) or late bronze age (plain pegged or barbed spearhead, see Ehrenberg, 1977, p13-15). However, the basal end of the spearhead is missing, which would have contained diagnostic features which would facilitate the identification and dating.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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