Object: Spearhead
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Sheffield City Museum,J.87.53
Site: England,Yorkshire, W.R.,Sheffield,Found at Cocked-hat Lane, near the Bole Hills, Crookes, 1887.
Discovery context: hillside
Parish: Sheffield
County: South Yorkshire
Country: England
Year of discovery: 1887
Length (mm): 141
Weight (g): 23
Patina: Green patina
Other: Weight: 23.4 gms
Associations: J.87.51 Cinerary urn, calcined human bones, inverted into a larger urn. On top of bones, J.87.52 "pygmy cup" and J.87.53 bronze spearhead (?).
Publications: Catalogue of Bateman Antiquities (S.C.M. 1899), pp. 136-7 (N.B. not part of Bateman Collection),Proceedings of Soc. of Antiq., May 5th, 1887, pp. 390-1.
Remarks: In 6 pieces when found. Greatly distorted by action of heat.