Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum (151.94), presented to Essex Arch. Soc. by Lord Rookwood 1894.
Site: England, Essex, Hatfield Broad Oak
Parish: High Roothing
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 182
Width (mm): blade 38.5, socket 23.5
Thickness (mm): Blade 14, 4. Socket 25
Weight (g): 156.8
Patina: dull mottled light green. Brownish bronze shows where patina is scraped off.
Surface: smooth - a very slight encrustment of blue on both sides of blade.
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard of 16 socketed celts 20 Lumps of Rough Metal. 14 pieces of socketed celts. 14 small pieces of an earthenware pot. 4 pieces of Rim of Burial Urn. a pair of Burial Urn Handles. 3 Spear Heads. 1 Chape. + part of a socketed tool.
Description: Socket decorated with incised rings. these are scarcely visible.
Publications: Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. N.S. vi. 172