Object: Spearhead
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mason's College, Birmingham, No. 2,Given by G. H. Jack, County Surveyor for Herefordshire to E. C. Middlesex
Site: England,S. Shropshire,8 miles west of Ludlow,Broardward Hall,Parish of Clungunford
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 88
Width (mm): 50
Thickness (mm): 22
Weight (g): 88
Associations: Probably for hoard.
Description: Every vestage of the original metallic bronze has disappeared. It is simply a huge mass of (probably) carbonate of copper. The socket is still in form retains some black powder.
Publications: Arch. Camb. III (4th S) 338-355, and IV 80-83 + 202-4,Evans, Anc. Br. Imps. 168, 255, 319, 320, 336, 338, 340, 397, 465,Br. Mus. Guide to Bronze Age, 1st Ed. pp. 39-85,R. L. L. Kenyon, Shrops. Anrch. Trans., IV (2nd S), 279.,Anden, Vic. Co. Hist. Shrops. I, 202.
Remarks: Before being broken, the form of spear was sufficiently in evidence to justify the dotted outline.