Object: Spearhead
Classification: Tanged
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Manchester University Museum,O.8664
Site: England, isle of wight,arreton,arreton down
Discovery context: downland
Parish: Arreton
District: Isle of Wight
County: Isle of Wight
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Surface: dull gold mainly, merging to dark brown for lower part of tang; odd pits (small) dark brown and one or two with green corrosion products. none of damage to edges is obviously modern; file-marks and tang, rounding corners, may be modern
Description: Either blade wing has swollen centre line with bevel outside; midrib asymmetrical on face, more-or-less symm. on revers; triangular facet at tang/blade junction; rounded original or modern rubbing? hammer ripple marks on faces of tang, and sides; tang twisted with respect to blade.
Publications: Needham 1985, A6 no. 9
Remarks: C1 S1,M 2 Feb. 78