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Description: | A complete iron spearhead of Iron age date (700 BC - AD 43). The spearhead is an elongated leaf shape which starts broad and flat and tapers to a point. The object has an elongated hollow circular socketed end and no clear evidence of a rivet is present. The surface is heavily corroded and both sides have a central raised midrib.Whilst similar curved out lower parts of blades leaving projecting points are known on some Anglo Saxon spears (e.g. Swanton's typology), the socketed end , given that it is not overlapping but cast as a hollow circular socket, is more typical of Iron age and Roman spearheads.The metal has cream, green and brown patina across its entire surface.The spearhead is similar to the Swanton type 2B, also see Stead and Rigby p, 70, No 2405.(Swanton 1973, 135-8; Swanton 1974, 20-23)(Stead and Rigby, 1999 P 70).
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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