Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge
Site: No locality
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 129
Edge (mm): 28
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 70
Patina: Dark brown patina and metal.
Surface: Fairly smooth
Other: Thickness: blade 11mm
Description: Two loops in same plan as blade, one of which is broken. Conical socket, deep grooves between the bevel and the socket. Base broken. Broken where blade joins the shaft. This has been mended by filling up the socket with lead and by boring holes in the socket which are filled with lead to hold the lead splint in position.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 172, No catalogue,Bronzes 86. The numbers can be found in a catalogue called "Museum of Archaeology",Cambridge Antiquarian Society Catalogue, 1884.