Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum,Donor, Dr. Ralph Baker
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Burton-on-Stather,Near Bagmoor Farm,Found while digging in a field for potatoes about 1927.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Burton-on-stather
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1927
Length (mm): 205
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 142
Patina: Rich green.
Other: Weight: 5 oz. = 141.748 gms
Associations: Found with another spearhead and a socketed gouge.
Description: Shaft broken off and blade damaged. Edges chipped; socket extends about to point.
Publications: Hull Museum Pub., No. 178, p. 28,History and Antiquities of Scunthorpe and Fodingham District