Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Colchester Museum,Deposited by W. C. Wells, Esq., 1911,(2362.11)
Site: England,Essex,Grays Thurrock
Parish: Grays
County: Essex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 86
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 22
Thickness (mm): 3
Weight (g): 39
Patina: Remains of a medium green patina with golden bronze showing through.
Surface: Fairly smooth - thin green encrustment.
Other: Width: blade 22mm; socket 19.5mm,Thickness: blade 3mm; 7.5mm,Weight: 39.3 gms
Associations: One of a Bronze Founder's Hoard.
Description: Decorated round socket with groups of small incised lines. The marks below these, on blade are partly obliterated by slight surface corrosion. A line from socket towards point of blade.