Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum, (151.94),Presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rookwood, 1894,(Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. VI. 172)
Site: England,Essex,Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish: Hatfield Broad Oak
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 131
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 29
Thickness (mm): 10
Weight (g): 83
Patina: Medium green - lighter on one side. Dark bronze shows where patina is cleaned off.
Surface: Smooth. Traces of gravel and sand. Some thin dark blue encrustment like a patina on one side.
Other: Width: blade 28.5mm; socket 25.6mm,Thickness: Blade 10mm; socket 24mm,Weight: 83.28 gms
Associations: One of a Bronze FOunder's Hoard of 16 socketed celts, 20 Lumps of Rough Metal, 14 Pieces of Socketed Celts, 14 small pieces of an earthenware pot, 4 Pieces of Rim of Burial Urn, a pair of Burial Urn Handles, 3 spear heads, 1 chape, and part of a socketed tool.
Publications: Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S., VI, 172,Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxiii (1909-11),Burgess, Coombs and Davies, 1972, 245, no. 75, 273 fig. 29