Object: Looped Spearhead
Classification: IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Public Museum, Gloucester
Site: England,Gloucestershire,Gloucester,Coney Hill Cemetary,While digging; in clay 3-4 ft. below surface, March 1934
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Gloucester
County: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1934
Length (mm): 142
Width (mm): 16
Edge (mm): 23
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 52
Patina: Dark blue patina with underlying traces of green.
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Other: Thickness: socket 15.5mm
Associations: None
Description: Fair condition. Two holes in socket due to faulty casting. Tip slightly bent. Blade has been touched in places with modern file.
Publications: Ant. Journal, XV, p. 196, fig
Remarks: The length taken with spear slightly bent. Blade a pronounced ogee shape.