Object: Spearhead
Classification: V B
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,Mr. E. C. Edwards,35 High St., Bishops Castle, Salop.
Site: England,Shropshire,Bishops Castle (2 mile from),In fields called "The Bloody Romans",1862,During drainage, depth of 3 ft. 6 ins. in bed of an old pool
Parish: Bishops Castle
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 341
Width (mm): 46
Edge (mm): 63
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 383
Patina: Brownish black.
Surface: Smooth + shiny where not worn through.
Other: Width: blade 63mm; 46mm,Thickness: 14mm; 18mm,Weight: 382.72 gms
Associations: A hoard of several hundred spearheads, all sold as old metal at 4d per ib., except this + two sent to Oakley House (where owner of the land lived) + one sent to Leicester Museum (Both now lost.) Thousands of white stones roughly weighing 2 3/4 ozs were found at the same spot.
Description: Socket only hollow to point marked A. Above this the inner core remains distinct from the outer metal. Broken by workman's tool. Blades much worn and edge lost.
Publications: No G15 (Roman Section) in Exhibition of Shrops. Antiqs. 1898,Arch. Camb. III, (1872), 339 + 343, Rev. T.O. Rocke,Burgess & Cowen, 1972, 240, 244 Appendix 2, 269, fig. 27.1-8