Object: Spearhead
Classification: Spearhead Barbed (Class VI)
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Cheltenham Museum,Jabez Allies Collection,Donor, Miss Allies,1940
Site: England,Worcestershire,Worcester County Borough,about 1 1/2 miles below Worcester and 1/2 mile below Diglis Lock, dredged from the Severn, 1844
Discovery context: river,dredged
County: Worcestershire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1844
Length (mm): 266
Width (mm): 26
Edge (mm): 67
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 227
Patina: No patina
Surface: Lustrous brown, well preserved.
Composition: Bronze
Other: Width: blade 67mm; socket 26mm,Thickness: blade at section 11mm; socket 20mm (broken),Weight: 8 oz = 226.796 gms
Description: Thin and finely surfaced. Remarkably light for its size. Fine point. Edges sharp, slightly damaged. 2 dents in one face of socket. Barbs sharply pointed. Socket hollow well up blade; mouth broken.
Publications: Arch. Journ. II (1846), 187, Fig,S. Allies, Antiqs. of Worcs. (ed 2, 1856), 30, Fig. with refs,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps, 337, with refs,V.C.H. Worcs. I, 196
Remarks: Attached is a visiting card of the writer with record in ink: "Mr. J. Allies. Spear head dredged up from the bed of the Severn about a mile and a half below Worcester in 1844."