Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Society of Antiquaries, No. 8,Burlington House W.,Presented by T. F. Dukes, Esq. FSA, 1834,(Hartshorne, Sal. Antiq. 96),Cast no. 4
Site: (Of Original),England,Shropshire,Little Wenlock,Willow Moor,The Wreckin,Salop,1834
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 640 083
Year of discovery: 1834
Length (mm): 195
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 57
Thickness (mm): 28
Weight (g): 315
Composition: Original was bronze
Other: Width: 57mm blade; socket 26mm,Thickness: socket 28mm; blade 15mm,Weight (in brass): 315.39 gms
Associations: A socketed celt, about 150 (Dukes) or 2-300 (Hartshorne) broken spearheads, a few swords (D), 3 or 4 whetstones (H), a blade, and a handle of a broken dagger (H) [?Sword].
Description: Socket is broken.
Publications: Hartshorne - Salopia Antiqua, pp. 89-98; 96 fig 8,Arch XXVI 464-5,Arch. Jo. VII, 197.,Evans, Anc. Br. Implt., under "Little Wenlock", pp 113, 234, 314, 336, 452, 465, under"Wrekin Tenement", pp. 285, 338, 465.,R. L.L Kenyon, Shrops. Arch Trans., IV (2nd S), 279.,Anden, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops., I, 203.
Remarks: Identified with Hartshorne's fig. 8 facing p. 296.