Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum, L44/2
Site: England,Sussex (West),Sompting,Stump Bottom
Parish: Sompting
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 151 088
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 81
Width (mm): 10
Edge (mm): 21
Surface: Gross to emerald green patina, small dull gold patch; patina flakes at edges; intense pocking to light green + dull brown around m.
Associations: 1b. Hoard
Description: Dimensions: EL 80.5mm; max EW bl 20.5mm; Ws (below blade) 9.7mm; W across lps. 14.9mm; EWm 17.2mm; EBm 17.8mm; min Blp 2mm; Ds 76,Typology: bl. prob. orig. with flame-shape; loz. midrib becomes more rounded for socket but with very slight crest rib, and expands (sl. convexity to the expansion) at m. to oval; loop plates not part. regular, both with construction in lower part,Manufacture: variable stump of cg. fl. - thin - along s. sides, totally removed on lps. & prob. at m; some suggestions of hammer ripples on s.; forging poss. created crest ribs also odd off-centre sl. rib on reverse face; small hole on reverse side below lp. - probably cg. flaw, rounded edges.,Condition: series of str. along bl. + midrib, others transverse on s. and midrib - could be anx.; other impressions look like vice grip marks and file ripples; lead like substance at main break - solder?,Attached Material: very chalky buff soil coat inside s. + loops
Remarks: Label/Markings: White ink: "2.44/2",Archive PIF; AFI,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext. CI,Rec: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV