Object: Spearhead
Classification: V C
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,No number, but No. 43 in 1881,Described: "Cast of a bronze spearhead from the Wrekin, Salop. Donor Mr. T. F. Sukes, F.S.A",(Cast no. 2)
Site: England,Shropshire,Little Wenlock
Parish: Little Wenlock
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 640 083
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 195
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 60
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 390
Surface: Rough - dull greenish grey, with golden bronze showing on all edges, inside openings, on lip of socket and down ridge of junction on side shown (other side is broken).
Other: Width: blade 60mm; socket 26mm,Thickness: blade 16mm; socket 28mm,Weight: 389.81 gms
Associations: Foun with Willow Moore (Wrekin Farm 1835) Hoard of 200-300 spearheads, 3 or 4 whetstones, and a celt.
Description: If this is a cast, it is remarkably well done.
Publications: Appears to be identical with that fig'd in Harthshorne's "Salopia Antiqua" Pl. facing, p. 96., No. 8; p. 94-97 + plate,Evans, B.I. Hoard, No. 41. pp. 285, 338 (ref. Arch XXVI, 464),S.A.T. IV (2nd S) 279,Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops. I, 203
Remarks: Casts of this spearhead are in National Museum of Wales; Hereford City Museum; the Collection of the Society of Antiquities.