Object: Spearhead
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hagut Wood, on limit of railway cutting, 6 ft. below surface, lying on a stratum of sand, c. 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill.,Found June 4, 1872.
Discovery context: railway cutting
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 32
Width (mm): 35
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 30
Patina: Thin green patina, with golden-bronze showing through.
Surface: Smooth except on the fractures.
Associations: Part of a large hoard: see card for first spearhead V.
Description: Central part of blade, probably class V; edge of one wing rough and chipped, the other has a chip out of each end; wider end of socket slightly crushed; remains of haft in socket. Each wing is decorated with a pattern of two concentric circles enclosing a central dot, the pattern being repeated on the other side.
Publications: Arch. Journ. XXX, 279,Evans,Jessup, Arch of Kent, 107,Journ. Anthrop. Inst. III, 230