Object: Spearhead
Classification: IV A
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Foster Bequest, No. 293 (Catalogue),Prehistoric Bronzes, No. 176 (Catalogue is lost.)
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Haddenham
Parish: Haddenham
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 179
Width (mm): 18
Edge (mm): 30
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 68
Patina: Specks of dust colour on fairly bright metal.
Surface: Corroded.
Description: Flat blade expanding rather suddenly near base: loop (in centre of shank) long and very flat - the face being a regular pointed oval.
Remarks: Formerly labelled: Mildenhall, Rev. S. Banks,In the F.B. Cat., site is given as Haddenham, Cambs., but Rev. S. Bank's label is more likely to be correct.