Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2476,H. Prigg
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach,(near Burwell),Reach Fen,1867
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 168
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 36
Weight (g): 136
Patina: Dirty patina dark greenish-brown.
Other: Width: 36mm; socket 25mm diameter,Weight: 136.49 gms
Associations: Hoard of at least 60 objects, Nos. 2451-2489, including 14 socketed celts (see No. 2451 for details), 3 spearheads and 5 fragments, 1 pieces of sword blade, 11 knives and oddments, 7 small tools, 3 mouths, 1 chafe, rings, metal, etc.
Description: Edges of blade bevelled. 2 rivet holes in socket 32 mm below blade. Socket decorated with 5 bands of horizontal ingraved lines and 3 bands of vertical lines of 4 dots.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, p. 319, Fig 390,H. Prigg, Journ. Brit. Arch. Assn., XXXVI, 56 ff, Fig. 8