Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Neward-on-Trent Municipal Museum,Accession no. 788-1,Presented to Museum by Dr. Stallard, Burton Joyce.
Site: England,Nottinghamshire,Burton Joyce,River Trent,Dredged from the River Trent near Burton Joyce in 1925.
Discovery context: river,dredged
Parish: Burton Joyce
County: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1925
Patina: Incomplete, blackish patina.
Surface: Smooth, unpitted, with very little corrosion, apart from incrustation mentioned above. Metal shows clearly.
Other: Length: 6 7/8" = 174.625mm,Width: 1 3/16" at widest point = 30.1625mm,Thickness: 3/4" (19.05mm) at haft and tapering to 1/16" (1.5875mm) at point.,Weight: 3 oz. = 85.0486 gms
Associations: Unassociated find.
Description: Small, socketed spear head, the socket being hollow to a distance of 4 1/2" from haft end, and continued as a solid rib along the remainder of the blade. There are side loops about 1 1/8" from haft end, but the holes of these loops now blocked with, hard rusty, incrustation, which also occurs in patches on one face of the blade, and just inside the socket. The sides of the socket below the blade have been slightly flattened by filing - the marks of which show clearly. The base of the socket is slightly indented all round. Edges of blade badly chipped and blade also slightly cracked.
Publications: Unpublished
Remarks: Compiled Sept. 1957 1/2, F. Waters.,Arthur Driver, Curator