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Description: | A small, incomplete cast copper-alloy pegged spearhead of Late Bronze Age date. It is missing its tip, edges of the blades and much of the socket due to old breaks. The socket is cylindrical in form, hollow and with the remains of one circular peg hole visible to one side of the spearhead. It tapers towards the now missing tip, forming a circular sectioned mid-rib. To either side are integral blades that are flat, semi-circular in plan/form and appear to be missing areas of the cutting edges due to post-depositional wear and corrosion. The entire object has very worn surfaces with most of the dark green/brown patina missing and evidence for copper-alloy corrosion, particularly at the blade and tip ends. It measures 63.06mm in length, 21.33mm in width at blades, 20.38mm in thickness/diameter at the socket end, and 28.98g in weight. This is an incomplete, but small, pegged spearhead of Late Bronze Age date, c.1150-800 BC.
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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