Object: Looped Spearhead
Classification: IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: For Shrewsbury Museum,Mrs. Foulker, Wheathill Farm, Nr. Wellington, Salop.
Site: England,Shropshire,Wroxeter,Wheathill Farm,Field NE of Ravenshaw's Gorse,Found in clay, turned up after deep ploughing, on surface.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Wroxeter
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid reference: G.R. 1" OS Popular (1947); No. 118: 581/3109,6" OS Shropshire 35 SW
Year of discovery: 1953
Length (mm): 122
Edge (mm): 37
Thickness (mm): 21
Weight (g): 78
Patina: Greenish patina, scraped off down to lustrous silvery-golden metal.
Surface: Somewhat pitted in places, generally fairly good
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: blade 37mm; socket diam. at mouth 21.5 x 21mm,Weight: just over 2 3/4 oz = 77.96 gms
Associations: None
Description: Leaf-shaped blade. Strong point very sharp, very slightly bent. Lateral loops low down on socket, not strictly opposed; outline rounded. Midrib tapering, rounded, then sharper towards point; hollow only to 59mm up socket. Edges sharp, jagged, and worn. Socket approx. circular. Thin metal, ragged at mouth.
Publications: LFC SA Trans. - To be published