Object: spearhead
Classification: Cast lunate
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Clough/RT/Lambor, G.,In fact the 4th stolen from the Antiquaries Collection
Site: The original was from: England,Shropshire,Little Wenlock,Wrekin Tenement,1834,Alias Willow Moor, found by a labourer cutting a drain .
Parish: Little Wenlock
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1834
Associations: Part of a large Hoard of broken spearheads, a 3 ribbed socketed axe and some sword fragments, estimated at 200 or 300 at worst (Hawthorne)
Publications: Numerous.,Barin Refs: T.F. Dukes, Archaeologia, XXVI, 46f-5, 20 Nov. 1938:,Rev. C.H. Hartshorne, Salopia Antiqua, (1841), 95-7, Plate, date given as 1855,Evans, A.B.I. many refs, duplicating hoards as his No.s, 44-41,Full refs. and evidence in Lily F. Chitty, Antiquaries Journal, VIII (1928), 30-47, Pls + Figs, esp, Pl. XII, p. 32.
Remarks: A similar discovery had been made c. 1790 (Hawthorne, p. 95)