Object: Spearhead
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge,Foster Bequest, No. 282, (Catalogue),Prehistoric Bronzes, No. 159 (Catalogue is lost)
Site: England,E. Yorkshire,near Middleton,in a gravel pit
Discovery context: gravel extraction
Parish: Middleton
County: East Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 178
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 45
Thickness (mm): 15
Weight (g): 176
Patina: Dark green speckled with dark brown - metal showing through.
Surface: Smooth and shiny
Other: Width: blade 45mm; socket 26mm,Thickness: blade 15mm
Associations: Hoard
Description: High midrib. Bevelled round cutting edge. The edge is continued down the socket along the seam of casting. Lower portion of socket is missing.
Remarks: Purchased at a shop in the town of Beverley by Mill Stephenson, said by him given to Foster.