Object: Spearhead
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Shrewsbury Museum,donor H. R. Corbet, Esq.
Site: England,Shropshire,Child's Ercall
Parish: Child's Ercall
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1860
Length (mm): 215
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 37
Thickness (mm): 16
Weight (g): 128
Patina: Dark golden brown, vertically striated.
Surface: Smooth
Other: Width: blade 37mm; 47mm; socket end 25mm,Thickness: blade 16mm; 14mm,weight: 127.56 gms
Associations: Probably found with socketed celt (and another spearhead ? - probably not),1860
Description: Broken in two. at A+B are indications as of a rather roughly woven textile with slight remains of red colour. At A and again at C + D.
Publications: R. L.L. Kenyon, Shropshire Arch. Trans. IV (2nd S), 279.,Ander, Vic. Co. Hist. I 202,A "spear from Child's Ercall" was No. 39 in Exhibition of Shrops. Antiqs. 1898 (S.A.T. X 2nd S, 108)
Remarks: Shrewsbury Museum Donations Book I (Mus) records that, on July 29th 188, H. R. Corbet, Esq., of Adderley, presented "1 Bronze Roman Celt, found in the parish of Child's Ercall, Salop, 1858," and "1 Roman Bronze Spear or Banner Head found at the same place" [Presumably this one as its patination is more like that of the celt than the other specimen labelled as from this site.]