Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Prouse, Mr. J. - private,24 Tudor Drive, Watford
Site: England,Hertfordshire,Rickmansworth Urban,Croxley,Common Moor,Found 13 Jan. 80 using a metal-detector by MR. J. Prouse, 24 Tudor Drive, Watford, at a depth of 9 1/2" on the surface of a gravel bed which is overlain by peat.
Discovery context: peat
Parish: Rickmansworth Urban
County: Hertfordshire
Country: England
Grid reference: TQ 082 951
Year of discovery: 1980
Length (mm): 123
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 23
Weight (g): 64
Surface: Brown to browny-green dry surface; occasional chippings bright green.
Associations: 8a. Single Find
Description: Dimensions: L 122.5mm; max Wbl. 22.5mm; Wet loops 19.7; min Wlp 1.8; Wt. 63.6 g,Typology: rounded loz. midrib sec. w. round angles to bl. wings; socket m. almost certainly was approx. circ.,Manufacture: sl. bulges along sides between bl. & lps. prob. stumps of cg. fl.;  no e. bev. apparent,Condition: s.m. much crushed in antiquity; minor battering of bl. e. prob. in ant., also some chipping - bright green and prob. corr. dam.; tip little bent in side view: series of small dents mainly along crest of midrib - no evid. that recent.,Attached Material: a few hard lumps of concretion firmly attached which incorporate much small gravel a little matrix; s. end blocked with sim. material.
Remarks: Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (S); SI,Ext.: CI,Rec.: SN April 80,Source: Sb. A.,Sub. Inf.: Mr. A.E. King, 206 Berthead Rd., Boretown Wood, Herts.