Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Oakham Museum, O.S. 693,Formerly in the collection of V.B. Gowther-Beynon
Site: England,Lincolnshire
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 100
Width (mm): 27
Edge (mm): 26
Thickness (mm): 28
Patina: Dark brown patina; patches pocked/flaked to lighter brown.
Surface: Little lumpy sur. - corr? Most of bl. e. with minor dam. prob. in ant.; large crack from s. m. 0 ant.?; some scoring of sur. may be rel. recent. Orange stained material adhering.
Other: Width: m. 27.2mm; E.W. bl. 26.2; B.m. 27.7; D.s. 78
Description: Parts of well-defined e. bev. surviving; some rippling of socket may be original; cg. fl. not fully removed - evid. all down s. sides; lump at base of one bl. wing poss. cg. flaw; fine ridge near s.m. - cg. flaw; one peg-hole open, other filled with hard material - corrosion? slight creases in s. profile at bl. wings.
Publications: Davey, 1973, 80, 84, fig. 18. no 182
Remarks: SN July 78,PI; CI; SI