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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy side-looped and socketed spearhead of Middle Bronze Age date (1500 - 1150 BC). Only the butt end of the blade and the socket survives.The spearhead socket is open at one end for hafting. The mouth is broadly oval in cross section with distinct angular ridges running down the front and back. The socket tapers evenly along its length to form a narrower neck to the junction with the blade. The base of the socket is incomplete with irregular breaks and has an internal section of roughly 11.19mm x 12.35mm. The side loops are positioned towards the centre of the length of the socket. They are oval and one is broken across the perforation, and the other is complete but exceedingly thin. This may be a casting flaw or may be the result of damage. The broken loop was over a hole through the wall of the socket. There is also a circular hole to the side of the other loop.From the narrowed top of the socket, the blade extends, widening as it does so but continuing to taper in thickness. Most of the blade is missing and the edge is worn and rounded. The break is patinted.The front and back faces have a V-sectioned central ridge which extends the length of the spearhead but no other cast or incised decoration. This rib appears as a continuation to the ridge running down the front and back of the socket. The spearhead is dark green in colour with the original surface only surviving in places. It has a crazed glossy dark brown patina. Compare SOM-A2D9D1, LEIC-4C7414 and NARC-F7C340.
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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