Object: Spearhead
Classification: VI
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lieut. Col. E. J. St. John, Slinfold
Site: England,Berkshire,Speen,("in the Speen Moor, Valley of the Kennet, in the peat")
Discovery context: moorland,peat
Parish: Speen
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 251
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 71
Thickness (mm): 25
Weight (g): 397
Patina: Traces of black patina with d. bronze showing through.
Surface: Smooth. Appears to have been scraped. A little light earth on one side of blade.
Other: Width: blade 71mm; socket 24.5mm,Thickness: socket 25mm; blade 4mm; 16mm,Weight: 396.88 gms
Associations: Another spearhead.
Description: Well preserved generally.
Publications: Geo. Robberton in a letter to Major Bunny, dated 16.12.1873 (from Anatomical Dept. Mus. Oxford) asks for permission to describe them in a short paper for the Newbury Field Club.,Evans, J., Anc. Bronze Impl. 337,Proc. Soc. Ant. 2nd Ser. v. 404, pl. III.II,V.C.H. Berks, i. 195,Hist. of Newbury and Environs, 142, fig.,Arch. Assoc. Journ. XVI, 322, pl. XXVI.4,Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 124-5.
Remarks: "Professor Robberton of Oxford pronounces them to have undoubtedly belonged to the Ancient Britons."