Object: Spearhead
Classification: VI
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Feb. 1939,On loan to Littlehampton Museum
Site: England,Sussex,Vapton,Flansham
Parish: Vapton
County: West Sussex
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 53
Width (mm): 42
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 53
Patina: Thin green patina, most of surface is a dull brown.
Surface: Smooth, except for a few patches of crystallisation.
Associations: 2 socketed celts + 5 fragts; 2 socketed gouges + 1 fragment; 1 socket knife fragment; 3 sword fragts; 1 ferrule + 1 fragt; 1 copper cake + 25 metal lumps.
Description: Small part consisting of lower part of one wing of blade, (including barb) and part of the socket. Flat oval-section socket, with only very slight prominence for mid-rib, from which the blade tapers evenly towards the edge; small amount of socket runs below the barb. Small notch missing from edge.
Publications: Sussex Notts and Queries, VII, 78.