Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 160 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Co. Westmeath,Ratars Castle
Parish: Ratars
County: County Westmeath
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 187
Width (mm): blade 34
Thickness (mm): blade 10
Weight (g): 112
Patina: Brown
Surface: Moderately smooth and dull.
Description: Conical socket with beaded ridge reaching only a short way up the blade and becoming a midrib towards which the wings thicken. Two loops, lozenge shaped connected to the shoulders by a long rib.