Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private: Elmden, Mr. Mark A. (1994),8 Lynn Rd., St. Germans, Norfolk
Site: England,Norfolk,Wiggenhall St. Germans,Blackburgh Pit
Parish: Wiggenhall St. Germans
County: Norfolk
Country: England
Grid reference: TF 59 13
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 194
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 39
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 159
Surface: Dark green patina, largely intact with some golden flecks (not from mod. dam.); small granular accretions
Description: Dimensions: L 194.0mm; Wbl 39.0; Es 27.3; Bs 27.3; Ds 81.5+ (end blocked); Wt 159.2 g,Typology: unusual flaring of socket mouth; rim itself is very flat,Manufacture: stumps of cg. flashes with anc. grinding marks crossing transversely and diagonally; hammer rippling within broad bevels; coarse gr. along blade wings may be palimpsest of anc. (running under corrosion products) and more recent.,Condition: edge mixed: some sharp, some more rounded; one side esp is [?maimed] by minichipping; fllaking at tip; modern gouging on one face and socket.,Attached Material: l. brown soil
Remarks: Rec.: SN Dec. 94,Source: Sb.A.,Add: [Also recorded for Bridgeford],Sub. Inf.: via Norwich C. Mus.