Object: Socketed Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Site: England,Lancashire,(Furness),Piel Island,Found in 1871 embedded in fallen masonry at Piel Castle.
Parish: Furness
County: Lancashire
Country: England
Grid reference: 34/233636
Year of discovery: 1871
Length (mm): 187
Width (mm): 32
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 163
Patina: Amongst his other "improvements" the finder polished off the patina.
Surface: Now smooth
Other: Length: 7 3/8" = 187.235mm,Width: 1 1/4 ins. = 31.75mm (original length 3 ins = 76.2mm),Thickness: 1 1/16 ins = 26.99mm,Weight: 5 3/4 oz. = 163.01 gms
Associations: None
Description: Mid-rib circular in section; hollow fluting 1/16 inch wide parallel to the edges. Since finding the end of the socket has been trimmed and two large hole bored through; a single small hole (off centre) is original.
Publications: Cumb. + West A. & A. Soc. Trans. N.S. III, p. 410; N.S. VI, p. 147 (il),Barrow Nats. Field Club Trans. XVII, p. 213.
Remarks: The monastic builders of Piel Castle apparently included the spearhead in the grouting of the wall.,Frank Barnes