Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of London
Site: England, greater london,wandsworth l.b.,thames foreshore,nine elms cold store
Discovery context: river
District: wandsworth
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 300 779
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 124
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 27
Weight (g): 88
Surface: Fine fark green-brown patina; limited purpley patches.
Associations: Area Find/River Group
Description: Dimensions: L 123.7mm; Wbl 26.6m; W at loops 25.5mm; Wm 20.5mm; Ds > 70mm; Bm 19.9mm; B lp plates 4.7mm & 6.0mm; Wt 87.8 g,Typology: rounded midribs changes to concave-lozenge towards tip; socket-mouth with pronounced hollowed furrow; fields of 'rain pattern' concentrated on flanks of midrib; loop plates lozenge shaped.,Manufacture: neat e. bevels, a little variable in width; hammer-rippling - ?regular- on socket-faces; furrows/facets on socket walls around each loop assoc. with grinding. Grinding marks across cg. flashes below blade; small gas bubble in midrib close to tip.,Condition: excellent; intact and sharp edges,Attached Material: Small frag. of fibre (?thong) lodged in angle at one loop.
Remarks: Rec. SN Aug. 93,Source: Sb. A.