Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919,1919.6
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen-land belonging to Mr. Oliver Claude Pell
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1885
Length (mm): 98
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 31
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 46
Patina: Dull black patina
Description: Conical socket and 2 Rivet holes.
Publications: Archaeologia XLVIII, 106.,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919
Remarks: Found in May 1885 a mile away from the other bronze implements by itself near a sluice in the River Bank at Australia Farm, just at the river end of the drain leading down to the farm buildings. Being the new drain on the East side of the drove leading also to the farm.