Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of London
Site: England,Greater London,Wandsworth L.B.,Thames Foreshore,Nine Elms Cold Store
Discovery context: river
Parish: Nine Elms
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 300 779
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 124
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 27
Weight (g): 88
Surface: Fine dark green-brown patina; limited purpley patches.
Associations: Area Find/River Group
Description: Dimensions: L 123.7mm; Wbl 26.6; W at loops 25.5; Wm 20.5; Ds > 70mm; Bm 19.9mm; Blp plates 4.7 & 6.0; Wt 87.8 g,Typology: rounded midribs changes to concave-lozenge towards tip; socket-mouth with pronounced hollowed furrow; fields of 'rain pattern' concentrated on flanks of midrib; loop plates lozenge shaped.,Manufacture: neat edge bevels, a little variable in width; hammer-rippling - ? irregular - on socket faces; furrows/facets on socket walls around each loop assoc. with grinding marks - anc. finishing; also crisp angles on loop plate created by grinding; Grinding marks across cg.-flashes below blade; small gas bubble in midrib close to tip.,Condition: excellent; intact and sharp edges.,Attached Material: small fragment of fibre (?thong) lodged in angle of one loop.
Remarks: Rec: SN Aug. 93,Source: Sb. A