Object: Spearhead
Classification: II
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Major Fisher, the Castle, Stroud, (1921),Stroud Museum
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Rodborough,Found on Rodborough Common,"in a fringe of beech wood, on the edge of the Common, above Stroud."
Parish: Rodborough
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 130
Width (mm): 22
Edge (mm): 30
Thickness (mm): 19
Patina: Dark green patina.
Composition: Bronze
Associations: Found with another, but shorter, specimen.
Description: In a state of good preservation.
Publications: Proc. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, xiii, 85-87.,Arch. 71, 140 + MXII, fig. 2.
Remarks: Given to Major Fisher's father by Mr. Pinfold, who formerly owned the property on which they were dug or ploughed up some years ago at Rodborough near Stroud. They were buried at no great depth in a piece of ancient woodland forming the fringe of Rodborough Common.