Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,No. 246 Murray Collection
Site: Ireland,Co. Kildare,Grange,1862
Parish: Grange
County: County Kildare
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1862
Length (mm): 315
Width (mm): blade 26.5; socket 27.5
Thickness (mm): blade 17.5
Weight (g): 253
Patina: Very dark brown - metal shows through all over.
Surface: Granular, broken and cracked in places. Chiefly along the line where the socket joins the wings.
Associations: One of a find of 50 associated objects, consisting of: 43 Rings, 1 spearhead, 1 ferrule (for spearhead), 4 armlets or bangles, and 1 penannular bracelet.
Description: Leaf shaped spearhead, narrow shoulderless wings, and a long wide socket which forms the very large keeled midrib. 2 Rivet holes and hollow wings. Socket is broken off.