Object: Spearhead
Classification: Spearhead Type IIIa
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Scunthorpe Museum, 1.42 (B.26),Donor: Mr. Ronald Smith
Site: England,Lincolnshire,Bottesford,Bottesford Moor Farm,December 1941, during draining operations.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Bottesford
County: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1941
Length (mm): 446
Width (mm): 26
Associations: Fragments of other bronze implements were reported to have been found at the same time, but were not preserved by the workmen.
Description: Extreme point is midding; the midrib is a tapered continuation of the socket, and is bordered by deep grooves separating it from the bevelled blades, which are corroded.
Publications: Darold E. Dudley, "Early Days in N.W. Linc.", fig. 33, No. 1, pp. 103,"Scunthorpe Museum Publication No. 2, p. 11, fig. 8, No. 1,C.F.C. Hawkes, Archaeological Journal, CIII, p. 7