Object: socketed spearhead
Classification: V
Completeness: Broken
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927-2479 e,H. Prigg
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach,Reach Fen,1867
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 48
Weight (g): 18
Patina: Dirty brown
Other: Weight: 18.32 gms
Associations: Hoard of Late Bronze Age, Nos. 2451-2489, including 3 spearheads and 5 fragments. For details, see Socketed Celt, No. 2451.
Description: Crushed and battered socket, apparently of spearhead, ornamented with 6 bands of finely engraved lines. 2 rivet holes.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., Hoard No. 82, p. 467