Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cato, Mr. V. - private (1982),40 Windmill Rise, Minster, Sheerness, Kewe, ME12, 3QA
Site: England,Kent,Minster in Sheppey,Minster Mud Flats,Found by Mr. V. Cato whilst metal detecting on coastal mud flats at Minster, 8 June 1982, at depth of c. 8"
Discovery context: metal detector
Parish: Minster In Sheppey
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: c. TQ 962 741
Year of discovery: 1982
Length (mm): 162
Width (mm): 1
Edge (mm): 29
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 66
Surface: Mainly grey-brown dry surface with mini-pitting; few small patches of very thin overlying layer, smooth and darker - prob. patina remnants;  parts of socket and crest rubbed to gold - flecked surface; limited deposits of  iron staining.
Associations: Single Find
Description: Dimensions: EL 162.2mm; Wbl 28.6mm; W neck 1.07; Wsm 19.5; B sm 19.9; Blp 4.0; Wt. 66.1 g,Typology: dagger-shaped blade - only minimally altered by damage; traces of c. bev. very diffuse - no definite signs on the broadest part; midridge rounded on socket, becoming sharper towards tip; socket wall tapers quickly to sharp rim at mouth.,Manufacture: only remnants of cd. flash in form of small bumps above and below loops,Condition: tip lacking; blade edges sharp and parts a little serrated - due to surface loss; base of blade becomes rounded close to socket; number of perforations in socket wall evidently due to erosion - but some could have been thinly cast spots, or even cg. flaws, originally; one loop pres. eroded in middle.,Attached Material: lower socket completely blocked with fine sand and shells
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF; DF(S); SI,Ext.: RSO 16/6/82; CI,Rec.: SN May 83,Source: Sb.A.