Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection (FEb. 1936),W.R. Hughes,21 Elm Road,Welwyn Garden City, Herts.
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Upper Tewin,Found (Jan. 1936) while digging foundations for a new bungalow-colony in Sewell's Orchard. Approximate site marked.
Parish: Upper Tewin
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: OS Herts XXVIII NE
Year of discovery: 1936
Length (mm): 94
Width (mm): 13
Edge (mm): 30
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 48
Patina: Grass-green patina, with streaks of lighter shade green underlying it; below this a few traces of bronze colour.
Description: Point, mouth of socket, edges of blade-wings broken and jagged. The broken edges for their greater part are ancient, though golden bronzes shows in a few patches. Socket extends 27mm up from the present mouth.