Object: Socketed Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private: J.M. Stratton, Esq.; The Manor House; Stockton, Wiltshire
Site: England,Wiltshire,Stockton,Found by a small depression NW of Stockton Earthworks in 1964/5
Parish: Stockton
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Grid reference: ST 965364
Year of discovery: 1964
Length (mm): 195
Patina: Deep green patina
Composition: Bronze
Associations: None
Description: Basal looped spearhead - the loops have been filed off in antiquity as the patina is uniform all over. Traces of filing and hammering on socket. Casting fault below blade on socket.
Publications: Wiltshire Arch. Mag. 1968 (to be published)
Remarks: C.N. Moore, 1968, Asst. Curator Salisbury Museum