Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Penzance Museum,Given by Mr. Stocker, St. Austelle, 1852.
Site: England,Cornwall,Pentewan,Wheal Virgin, 2 miles south of St. Austelle
Parish: Pentewan
County: Cornwall
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 103
Width (mm): 17
Patina: Greenish shiny patina.
Surface: Some bright spots of recent oxidisation on one face.
Associations: Found with a bronze chisel 8" long and about 1" wide, at the bottom of an old mine shaft.
Publications: Trans. Penzance Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Soc. ii. (1851-5), 88-90. [18 Oct. 1852]