Object: Spearhead
Classification: IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,Late Mrs. Cunliffe, Petton Park, Burlton, Salop.,Bought October 1923 by Rev. Walter Peppercorn, Vicar of Cockshutte and Petton, at sale at Petton Park + given to Shrewsbury Museum,Now in Shrewsbury Museum
Site: England,Shropshire,Petton,(in the Moat),1825
Parish: Petton
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1825
Length (mm): 160
Width (mm): 20
Edge (mm): 29
Thickness (mm): 20
Weight (g): 106
Patina: Slight traces of black patina.
Surface: Dull golden bronze.
Other: Width: blade 29mm; socket 20mm,Thickness: socket 20mm; blade 9mm,Weight: 106.31 gms
Description: Excellently preserved.
Publications: Lent to Exhibition of Shrops. Antiqs. 1898 (Cat. No. J3, Shrops. Arch. Trans X (S.2) 105),Anden, Vic. County Hist. Shrops. I, 203.
Remarks: Labelled: "Found in Petton Moat when it was cleaned out in 1825"