Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield Museum,J.93.466,Bateman Collection,From C. M. Jessop
Site: England,Yorkshire,Bilton,Found in cutting a drain 1848.
Discovery context: drain cutting
Parish: Bilton
County: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1848
Length (mm): 122
Width (mm): 27
Thickness (mm): 27
Weight (g): 72
Other: Width: socket 27mm; base of blade 21mm,Thickness: socket 27mm
Associations: Found with 6 socketed axes, 2 swords, 6 other spear-head fragments.
Description: Point missing, edge badly chipped, socket broken. Socket ornamented with 4 bands of 4 lines each. Blade also ornamented.
Publications: Sheffield Museum Catalogue,Brit. Arch. Journ., V., 349,Evans, J., Anc. Bronze Impl., 314, 320.