SPEAR 604655

Description: A Late Bronze Age copper alloy plain pegged spearhead dating to Needham's period 6-7 (1150 BC - 800 BC) and Ehrenburg's Class V (1977). It measures 217.25mm in length, 56.32mm in max.width, 25.21mm in max.thickness, 26.48mm in diameter and with a socket depth c.183mm. Weighs 160g (to the nearest 2g). The spearhead has a leaf-shaped blade, extending from just above the two peg-holes (c.5.5mm in diameter) with a chamfered edge and pronounced central mid-rib which extends all the way to the tip. The line of the blade is smoothly curving until the tip where it angles inwards quite sharply. All original patina has been lost and the metal is a coppery brown in colour. There are several area of bright green deposit on the surface, probably the result of corrosion. The spear may have been a deliberate contemporary deposition in a river.

Date: -1150 - -800

Object type: SPEAR

Last import: August 15, 2017