Object: Looped Spearhead
Classification: IV
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: G.B. Bull,Gable Cottage, 30 Swan Shed, Kingsclere, Newbury
Site: England,Wiltshire,Winterslow,Lopscombe Corner (junction of Salisbury-Andover and Winchester Roads),Found by W.A. Smith of Spire View, Pitton, Salisbury, on newly-ploughed land never cultivated within living memory,"on the surface near an ancient war trench",18th February, 1943.
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Winterslow
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1943
Length (mm): 151
Width (mm): 21
Edge (mm): 27
Thickness (mm): 14
Weight (g): 106
Patina: Very lustrous patina dark blackish green.
Surface: Well preserved. 2 pits on reverse, small one in socket near top, longer near base of wing. A very small pit at tip of socket on face drawn.
Other: Thickness: at base of blade 14mm; socket 21mm,Weight: 3 3/4 oz = 106.31 gms
Associations: None known
Description: Socket penetrates to 80mm, i.e. to site of section only. Metal at lip is 1.5-2mm