Object: Spearhead
Classification: Tanged class I
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,1927-2389, Evans Collection
Site: England,Cmabridge,Burwell,Burwell Fen
Parish: Burwell
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 250
Width (mm): 49
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 218
Surface: Yellow bronze; some green oxide.
Other: Weight: 217.74 gms
Description: Stout midrib. Long tang with rivet hole cast in foot. irregular form, 7 x 9mm diam. 4 engraved lines on each side of midrib at base on both faces. Evans says "The parallel flutings on the blade appear to have been produced in the casting" not by engraving or punching.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 258,Archaeologia, LXI 471,C. Fox, Arch. Cambridge Region, p. 54.