Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919,1919.b
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen-land belonging to Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 214
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 52
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 219
Patina: Very dark green patina, one spot near rivet-hole very bright green, most of one side black and metal colour.
Surface: Corroded here and there.
Other: Width: blade 51.5; socket 27mm
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: Conical socket. 2 Rivet holes in same plane as blade.
Publications: Archaeology, XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919