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Description: | IronSpearhead. Wrought iron with a butted seam straight socket and a flat leaf shaped blade with shoulders set at circa 45 degrees to the socket; the thickness of the blade diminishes rapidly from where it joins the socket, and it is only circa 3mm thick at its surviving end. Heavily corroded and lightly bent. The mass indicates almost all metal formerly present has been lost, and what remains is mainly rust.The form of the object appears to resemble a spearhead, and the finder kindly observes that it is close to that of Late Iron Age examples on display at the North Lincolnshire Museum, and as reported from Dragonby, North Lincolnshire (Manning and McDonald, 'Iron Artifacts (other than brooches)' in May 1996, Dragonby: Report on Excavations at an Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in North Lincolnshire (2 vols), volume 1, Oxbow, Oxford, pages 286-309, fig. 11.31 nos 2-6, 10-11; fig.11.32, nos 13-15). The flat section lacking a mid rib would appear a significant weakness for a weapon, albeit this is a common feature of the Dragonby spearheads which goes unremarked by Manning. Suggested date: Late Iron Age, 300 BC- AD100.Length: 170mm, Diameter (socket): 16mm, Width (blade): 50mm, Thickness (clear of socket): 7mm, Weight: 117.52gms.
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