Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum Observatory, Dumfries,230a label,also Label: 9
Site: Locality unknown
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 119
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 25
Thickness (mm): 19
Weight (g): 60
Patina: Dark brown and black. Metal shows almost brassy.
Other: Width: blade 25; socket 25,Thickness: socket 19mm; blade 12mm,Weight: 59.81 gms
Description: Volume: 13.8 ccs; Density: 4.33. One loop broken and twisted. contained head of shaft much shrunk.
Publications: Scot. Arch. + Hist., No. 50, I.E.G. 6
Remarks: A loose label found in the case may refer to this or the other spearhead (230 b): [141 Bronze spearhead. Found at Carscrough Castle, Wigtonshire in 1879. Lent by Jas. Lennox 75A. Scot.]