Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Mr. Lemmon, Saltwood
Site: England,Kent,Saltwood,Hayne Wood on line of railway cutting, 6ft. below surface, lying on stratum of sand, c. 25 yards NE by N of summit of hill. Found June 4, 1872
Discovery context: railway cutting, woodland
Parish: Saltwood
County: Kent
Country: England
Grid reference: Kent LXXIV NE
Year of discovery: 1872
Length (mm): 75
Width (mm): 44
Thickness (mm): 18
Weight (g): 38
Patina: Green and brown
Surface: Smooth
Associations: Part of a large founder's hoard; now comprising in 5 socketed celts; 16 socketed celt fragments; 2 spearheads V; 2 spearhead fragments; 14 sword fragments; 2 sickle fragments; 2 socketed knife fragments; 3 bracelet fragments; 1 socketed gouge; 1 looped mount; 1 chape; 1 chisel; 1 disk; 1 miscast socket; 1 quich pin; 14 lumps and some pieces now missing; see Evans and Arch Journ. XXX.
Description: Small leaf-shaped head with ribless wings, with very pronounced midrib. One rivet hole in socket; much of the lower part of the socket is missing, being broken off at one of the rivet holes. Blunt point and edges. Inner surface of socket rough with small traces of wood of shaft.
Publications: Arch. Journ.: XXX 278,Evans,Jessup. Arch of Kent 107,Journ. Anthrop. Inst. III, 230