Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Worthing Museum,3654,source and date unknown; catalogued Dec. 1950
Site: Unprovenanced
Country: England
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 110
Width (mm): 10
Edge (mm): 18
Surface: Dull gold tex. surface (mini-craters) over much has flaked, especially at midrib and loops and edges, to smooth dark brown surface; gold flecked areas associated with filemarks.
Associations: 9. Undocumented
Description: Dimensions: L 109.5mm; Wbl 18.1mm; min W 9.7mm; W (at loops) 17.5mm; Wm 14.5mm; Bm 14.6mm; min.Blp 1.8 + 2.3; Ds 61.5 (?+),Typology: construction towards base of both lps; circ s. merges into loz. midrib with rounded crests; angular with blade wings rounded rather than sharp creases; s. with slight convexity close to m; which has a very thin top.,Manufacture: rounded low stumps of cg. gl. between blade base and loops, removed elsewhere, two perfns with ineq. shape in socket, have rounded edges - certainly cg. flaws: no defined bl. e. bevel,Condition: Mouth notch poss. damaged - hairline crack leads off from it - metal very thin here though and might be flaw; e. quite sharp - to some extent possibly due to flaking; some recent filing.,Attached Material: probably some material in socket end - wood?
Remarks: Labels/Markings: very faint black paint marking: '3654',Archive: PIF,PRBAF: DF (C); SI,Ext: CI,Rec.: SN Oct. 79,Source: MV