Object: Spearhead
Classification: III A
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Lt. Col. E. J. St. John, Shinfold
Site: England,Berkshire,Speen,"(In the Speen Moor, Valley of the Kennet, in the peat)",1825
Discovery context: moorland,peat
Parish: Speen
County: Berkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1825
Length (mm): 176
Width (mm): 24
Edge (mm): 38
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 170
Patina: All the patina has been cleaned off.
Surface: Smooth
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: blade 37.5mm; socket 24mm,Thickness: blade 14.5mm; 3mm; 2mm,Weight: 170.1 gms
Associations: Another spearhead.
Description: Socket a good deal cracked near mouth on both sides. Edge of socket has been filed away for a portion measuring 18mm. Point is broken.
Publications: Geo. Rollerton in a letter to Major Bunny, dated 16.12.1873 (From Anatomical Dept. Mus. Oxford) Asks permission to describe them in a short paper for the Newbury Field Club.,Evans, J. Anc. Bronze Implements, 330, 333,Arch Ass. Journ. SVI, pl. XXVI, S.,Ibid. XVI, 250,V.C.H. Berks, i. 195,Hist of Newbury and Environs, 142, fig.,Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 124-5.
Remarks: "Professor Rollerton of Oxford pronounces them to have undoubtedly belonged to the Ancient Britons."