Object: Spearhead
Completeness: Fragment
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Winchester, Hants County Museum Service.
Site: England,Hampshire,Odiham,Odiham Castle,(King John's),Found in excavations 1981 (Aug.) on old ground surface beneath castle mound; a piece of ?prehistoric pottery came from a similar level; "block gravel" lay beneath OGS. Found during deturfing an obviously disturbed area.,Side reference: OC81 1 I/1/2 top of 2
Discovery context: excavated
Parish: Odiham
County: Hampshire
Country: England
Grid reference: SU 7255 5185
Year of discovery: 1981
Length (mm): 61
Width (mm): 30
Weight (g): 15
Surface: Mostly retaining a thin patina of brown ? colour (soil covered) - edges flaked to light green dry surface.
Description: Dimenstions: EL 61mm; W 29.5; max EB 14; Wt. 14.7 g,Typology: evidently part of a squat leaf-shaped spearhead with strongly converging socket/midrib of round section; indication of a [?apod] edge bevel,Condition: 5 joining fragments with fresh breaks, leaving further fresh fractures; others however appear ancient suggesting earlier fragmentation as well; parts of edges patinated and blunt,Attached Material: mostly covered in light grey-brown soil, mid brown soil-plug in end of socket, partly vesicular - may be core remnant. Corroded bronze frag. embedded in it.
Remarks: PRBAF: SI,Ext: Sketch over RSO 26/8/87; CI,Rec.: SN Nov 83,Source: Sb. A.