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Description: | A cast copper alloy Late Bronze Age socketed leaf-shaped spearhead, probably of Wilburton or Ewart Park Metalwork Assemblages, c.1200-c. 800 BC. The spearhead is incomplete, missing both the spear head tip end and a portion of the socket and ribs. Part of the circular socket survives with damage arround its edge and it is likely that the spearhead had peg or rivet holes. One of the blades of the spearhead is intact, however the other is is damaged along the outer edge. The spearhead is roughly leaf-shaped in plan, with a lozengiform cross-section near the break at the spearhead tip, which is solid.The spearhead measures 68.1mm long, 20.86mm wide, 11.63 thick. The socketed end is 10.47mm in diameter.
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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