Object: Spearhead
Classification: V C
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,S. H. Pritchard, Esq.,Admaston, Wellington, Salop,51-53
Site: England,Shropshire,Little Wenlock,Willow Moor,(Alias Wrekin Tenement, 1834, Dukes),1835
Parish: Little Wenlock
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SJ 640 083
Year of discovery: 1835
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 34
Thickness (mm): 12
Weight (g): 71
Patina: Dull rusty brown and grey green
Other: Width: blade 34mm; 41mm; Socket 25.5mm,Thickness: blade 12mm; socket 25.5mm,Weight: 70.88 gms
Associations: Part of a hoard
Description: Badly damaged. Very thin metal. Socket about 1/4mm thick. 2 Rivet holes. Mr. Pritchard writes to L.F. Chitty 31.10.23: "The 3 broken spearheads (bronze) were found in 1835 during excavations in connection with drainage of Willow Moor Farm. Of course the finder is dead, also his son who kept them in memory of his father; I knew the son casually but can not find out his name. I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the specimens. Along with the bronze spearheads was found a stone celt (Knife LFC) also in my possession."
Publications: As. Wrekin Tenement 1834, T.F. Dukes, Nov. 20, 1834, in Arch XXVI, 464-5.,Brief mentions in Arch. Camb. III (4th S), 338, + Montgom. Collection III, 437,As "Willow Morr. Willow Farm, or Wrekin Farm, 1835", Hartshorne, Salopia Antiqua (1841); Arch Jour. VIII (1851) 197.; Shrops. Arch. Trans. IV (2) 279. "Wrekin Farm" but pp. 89-98 + plate quoting Evans "Wrekin Tenement", as "Near Little Wenlock" or "Little Wenlock, Stop" (error amended later). Evans B. Imps (Hoard No. 44) pp. 44, 113, 234, 314, 336, 452, 461, 465. He recognised that this was "possibly the same hoard as No. 41 (Wrekin Tenement)". That these two hoards are identical is proved by the same spearhead with limited openings + socketed celt with a notch chipped in the edge, or curving in each.  Anden, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops. I, 203.