Object: Spearhead
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Manchester Univ. Mus., O.8664
Site: England,Isle of Wight,Arreton,Arreton Down
Parish: Arreton
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Surface: Dull gold mainly, merging to dark brown for lower part of tang; odd pits (small) dark brown and one or two with green corrosion productions. None of damage to edges is obviously modern, file-marks round tang, rounding corners, may be modern.
Description: Either blade wing has a swollen centre line with bevel outside; midrib asymmetrical on face, more-or-less symm. on reverse; triangular facet at tang/blade junction rounded - original or modern rubbing? Hammer ripple marks or faces of tang, and sides; tang twisted with respect to blade;
Publications: Needham 1985, A6 no. 9
Remarks: SN 2 Feb. 78; CI; SI