Object: Spearhead
Classification: VB
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sir Y.D. Trevelyan, Wallington Hall, Cambo, Morpeth.
Site: England,Northumberland,North Middleton,Prior Hall Farm (Middleton Moors),14th May 1879
Discovery context: farm
Parish: North Middleton
County: Northumberland
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1879
Length (mm): 145
Width (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 13
Weight (g): 92
Patina: Brown, where destroyed green.
Surface: Smooth
Other: Length: 145mm; shaft 104mm,Width: 42mm; Socket dia. 27mm,Thickness: 13mm,Weight: 63.7 gms; 92 gms
Associations: Hoard consisting of 3 daggers, 8 palstaves, 6 socketed celts, 2 spear-heads, 3 penanular rings, and 6 fragments.
Description: There are the remains of a loop at one side, just where the shaft has been broken off from the blade. There is a hole in the shaft behind this loop, and a corresponding one on the opposite side.
Publications: Archaeologia Ashliana IX, p. 52