Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919,1919.6
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fenland belonging to Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 142
Width (mm): 19
Edge (mm): 36
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 90
Patina: Black, green and brown patina.
Surface: Fused and broken at base of socket and corroded. Only slightly corroded towards the point.
Other: Width: blade 35.5mm; socket 18.5mm,Thickness: blade 14.5mm
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: Conical socket.
Publications: Achaeologia, XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919