Object: Spearhead
Classification: III
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Dorchester Museum 1934.40.1,Private Collection, Mr. Chell, Muckleford Farm,Lent to Dorchester Museum April 1932
Site: England,Dorset,Frampton,Close to Bradford Peverell Boundary Muckleford, West of, near SW angle of 6" OS Sheet Dorset XL NW.,Found by owner when digging out a badger on farm, March 1932, 3 ft deep, in anciently disturbed ground. (Map of site sent with original drawing).
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Frampton
County: Dorset
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1932
Length (mm): 631
Width (mm): 23
Edge (mm): 59
Thickness (mm): 24
Patina: Bronze-brown patina
Surface: Slight green incrustation in places.
Associations: Associated with a few imburnt human bones; nothing else.
Description: An exceptionally large and splendid specimen in almost perfect preservation except where one edge was chipped in getting it out. Protected eyelets at base of blade.
Remarks: The chalk on the Downs comes within one foot of the surface, except where spear-head was found. Here anciently disturbed ground 4 ft. deep and perhaps 10 yards square has encouraged rabbits to burrow and here the badger had his earth.