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Description: | An iron Spearhead. Wrought iron with a flat leaf shaped blade with shoulders set at circa 45 degrees to the socket and a thin, heavily corroded and lightly bent blade. The object has no central rib and its original length and shape is obscured due to the state of corrosion.The object 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 object measures 74mm in length, 34mm in width, 10mm in thickness and weighs 25.69g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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