Object: Spearhead
Classification: IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mrs. Carson,Little Heath: Upper Bassett, Southampton,([...] 1937)
Site: England,Hampshire,Titchfield Haven; found in road-widening; near the Bridge, in bed of T. Meon.,1930,
Discovery context: river
Parish: Titchfield
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: 6" O.S. Hants LXXN, S.E.
Year of discovery: 1930
Length (mm): 217
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 23
Weight (g): 152
Patina: This black patina over golden-bronze colout: touches of grey patina in angle between sides of blade and midrib.
Surface: Smooth and in good condition.
Description: Socketed looped spearhead; socket round at mouth, developing into lozenge shaped midrib running down to point; edges of blade damaged (broken and turned over in places). Socket partly split at base of blade, the split running partly up on to the midrib. Prominent (?) ridges at sides of socket.
Remarks: Sent to B.M. 1937, by Mrs. Carson. In a letter 28.5.38 she says she has now interviewed the workman who found it, and his statement is that he found it "about 8 years ago (i.e. c. 1930) in the bed of the R. Meon where the Titchfield-Stubbington road crosses it " when "excavating for the foundations of a small road-bridge"; he "came upon it about 4 feet below the surface of the river bed, a few feet from the downstream side of the bridge." This bridge is in Titchfield Parish, the bridge being in fact at the end of Bridge Street, Titchfield, which continues across it as the road to Stubbington.