Object: Spearhead
Classification: IIIA
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Nottingham Castle Museum
Site: England,Nottinghamshire,Clifton,Bed of Trent on N. Bank opposite N. end of Clifton Grove, 1928
Parish: Clifton
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1928
Length (mm): 560
Width (mm): 52
Weight (g): 523
Patina: Thin dark brown, one wing being almost free of patina.
Surface: Smooth + good condition. A ? massive encrustment on out side of one wing of blade and round loops.
Description: Edges and point fairly sharp; midrib extending to point, and angular in section; rib extends on each wing, parallel to the edge and curves in near the haft to join the loops; both loops are diamond-shaped, one of them being slightly broken. Orifices of socket partly missing; stump of wooden shaft remains in socket. There is a crack across the part where the socket meets the blade and the spearhead is slightly bent at this point.,Decoration: lines of parallel dots at intervals of about 1 mm. along each side of apex of midrib and base of midrib on both sides of the blade. Socket has incised lines near its mouth, and 8mm further up are 6 more incised lines. From the last if new incised lines, springs a chevron pattern, which goes round the whole circumference of the socket, the chevrons being filled with hatched lines. Compare spearhead III + from Bambridge N.R. Yorks, for similar ornament.