Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 150 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,King's Co.,Croghan Hill
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Croghan
County: County Offaly
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 140
Width (mm): blade 34.5; socket 26
Thickness (mm): blade 11
Weight (g): 135
Patina: Several shades of green in patches and flakes all over.
Surface: Rather rough.
Description: Very large socket with flattened neck, from which springs a short triangular blade: central ridge flat, rounded, divided from wings by a wide sharp groove: loops near base, stout, depressed.