Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,(From Fenton and Sons, 12 Holywell St. WC),z.4301
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Warboys Fen
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Warboys
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 296
Edge (mm): 58
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 310
Patina: Bright green patina and some dark brown
Surface: Fairly smooth. The blade more than the shaft is marked and grained in lines longitudinally. Also there are transverse hair-like lines on one aide along the summit of midrib and surrounding the whole shank.
Description: Conical socket. Very flat wings of even thickness and very narrow slight bevel. Blade broken and cracked in one place. Two rivet holes in same plane as blade. There is a ridge extending along the seams of the casting which gives a keel like appearance to the sides of the shank. A simple zigzag double line in each of the angles between the wings and the blade.
Publications: Prehistoric Bronzes, 154. No catalogue.,Foster Bequest, 281. The numbers do not correspond in the catalogue.