Object: Spearhead
Classification: IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology, Cambridge,Lichfield Collection, from Evans' Collection
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Quy Fen,1855
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Stow-cum-quy
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1855
Length (mm): 192
Width (mm): 17
Edge (mm): 33
Thickness (mm): 11
Weight (g): 78
Patina: Brown of several shades, and some green.
Surface: Dull though even.
Description: High midrib. 2 holes through blade at shoulder. Point nearly cracked off. Bent slightly in middle. 2 perforations in blade near base; these are not loops, although the edges of the blade are slightly thickened at the base, where they pass the holes.