Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Newark-on-Trent Municipal Museum, Accession no: 789-1,Preserted by Trent Navigation Co.
Site: England,Nottinghamshire,Gunthorpe,River Trent,Dredged from the River Trent at Gunthorpe about 1884
Discovery context: river,dredged
Parish: Gunthorpe
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1884
Length (mm): 391
Width (mm): 54
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 383
Patina: Incomplete, blackish patina.
Surface: Smooth, unpitted, with very little corrosion, metal shows clearly but is blackish brown colour on greater part.
Other: Length: 15 3/8" = 390.525mm,Width: 2 1/8" at widest point = 53.975mm,Thickness: 1" (25.4mm) at haft end tapering to 1/8" at point (3.175mm).,Weight: 13 1/2 ozs. = 382.72 gms
Associations: Unassociated find.
Description: Long, socketed spear head, the socket being hollow to a distance of 6 5/8" (168.275mm) from shaft end, and continued as a solid rib to point. Two loop holes at base of blade. Slight chamfer along both edges, extending from the flattened edges of the loop holes to the point. One edge is badly damaged and the spear head has been broken across its width 5 1/4" (133.35mm) from the point.  There is a small hole near the central rib; the end of the socket is almost completely broken away leaving only 1/2" (12.7mm) of the edge. Small fragments of wood inside socket.
Publications: Unputblished
Remarks: Compiled Sept., 1957. F. Waters,[?Arnant  ...., Curator]