Object: Ferrule
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb. 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England,Sussex,Yapton,Flansham
Parish: Yapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 84
Width (mm): 13
Weight (g): 32
Patina: Dull green and bronze
Surface: Smooth generally, but with much encrustment near rivet-hole.
Associations: 2 socketed celts + 5 fragments; 2 socketed gouges + 1 fragment; 3 sword fragments; 1 ferrule fragment; 1 spearhed VI fragment; 1 copper cake + 25 metal lumps; 1 socketed knife fragment.
Description: Tubular ferrule for spear-shaft circular section in centre; both ends embed and broken off. One rivet hole only.
Publications: Sussex Notes & Queries, VII, 78.