Object: Spearhead
Classification: Spearhead IV or V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,Purchased by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society April 1919,1919.6
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Wilburton,In fen land belonging to Mr. Oliver Claude Pell,1882
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Wilburton
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1882
Length (mm): 125
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 41
Thickness (mm): 17
Weight (g): 76
Patina: Dull dark brown patina.
Surface: Very smooth except round about the broken places.
Other: Width: blade 41mm; socket 24.5mm,Thickness: blade 16.5mm
Associations: The Wilburton Hoard
Description: Conical socket, broken or fused at base.
Publications: Archaeologia XLVIII, 106,New Cambridge, 17 May 1919