Object: Spearhead
Classification: Spearhead Type IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum, Accn. no. 13.49 (B.70),(Donor: Mr. W. B. Laughton, Low Row, Messingham)
Site: England,Messingham,Willow Farm,Found by Mr. Laughton in 1885
Discovery context: farm
County: Greater London
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1885
Length (mm): 157
Width (mm): 17
Edge (mm): 27
Description: Leaf shaped blade; loops on socket (length 16 cm) beginning 26 cm from base of socket. Slight breakage at mouth, dent in midrib on one side; point bent over.
Publications: H.E. Dudley "Early Days in N.W. Lincolnshire", p. 236