Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Stanier, Sir A - Private (no. 8),The Manor, East Farridon, Market Barborough, Leicestershire
Site: Unprovenanced,Possibly from the vicinity of the Red Castle, Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire
Parish: Weston-under-redcastle
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 157
Width (mm): 6
Edge (mm): 20
Surface: Fine dark brown patina; one patch rubbed/filed to gold - recent interference; parts of edge quite sharp, fractures in ant.; orange-brown materials adhering.
Associations: Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: Width: M 19.5; Bm 20.7; E.W.bl 20.1; Ds 90.5; W. lps 6.2 + 4.8,edge bevel on parts of blade; some irregularity in edge probably due to honing rather than damage; one lp. plate broad-leaf shape - other narrow with matching nick in either side; former plate is outline by slight pmks in open diamond shape; loz. midrib runs into ell. s.; sl. band furrow around outside of m. with nick decoration at edge - unevenly spaced; furrows in loz. shape on socket walls around lp. plates formed by grinding - striations visible along furrows; striations also round m. furrow, and along blade and s.; two hollows in s. wall, one beneath lp. - cg. flaws; cg. fl. remains, esp. on one side; shape s. end uncertain.
Remarks: SN Jun 78,PI; DF(C),Submitted Feb 78 (via M & L.A.)