Object: Spearhead
Classification: V
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,Evans Collection, 1927.2478, H. Prigg
Site: England,Cambridgeshire,Reach (near Burwell),Reach Fen,1867
Discovery context: fenland
Parish: Reach
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1867
Length (mm): 143
Width (mm): 25
Edge (mm): 30
Weight (g): 81
Patina: Dirty brown
Other: Weight: 80.78 gms
Associations: Hoard, Nos. 2451-2489, of at least 60 pieces. For details see Socketed Celt No. 2451. Late Bronze Age objects including 2 other spearheads and 5 fragments.
Description: Plain leaf-shaped blade with narrow bevel. 2 lateral rivet-holes 16mm below blade.
Publications: Evans, Anc. Br. Imps., p. 317, Fig. 386