Object: Spearhead
Classification: V A
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, April 1919,1919.6
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen land belonging to Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 337
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 51
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 321
Patina: Dull black
Other: Thickness: blade 19mm; 11.5mm
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: Leaf-shaped showing conical socket for shaft running down middle of blade. 2 Rivet holes in same plane as blade. Fluted edges.
Publications: Illustrated in Archaeologia, Vol. XLVIII, Pl. V,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919