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Unique ID: NMGW-B67A91
Object type certainty:
Bronze Age spearhead fragment of socket-looped type and of Middle Bronze Age date, and likely to belong to the Acton Park or Cemmaes metalworking traditions (c. 1500-1100BC). The spearhead is broken at both ends and would have been short with a leaf-shaped blade. The circular socket becomes lozenge-shaped as it defines the central rib of the blade. The remnants of both loops are present at the base of the fragment and appear slight with a circular section.
Notes:
The spearhead can be paralleled with a number of similar examples in National Museum & Galleries of Wales’ collections (Savory 1980, Nos. 227-230).
Class: Socket-looped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa 1500 BC
Date to: Circa 1100 BC
Dimensions and weight
Length: 40.4 mm
Width: 17 mm
Weight: 13.4 g
Diameter: 8 mm
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: West Midlands
County: Herefordshire
District: Herefordshire
Parish: Weston Under Penyard
Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: SO6223
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: From finder
Grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2004
Personal details
Found by: This information is restricted for your login.
Identified by: Mr Mark Lodwick - [view all attributed records]
Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMGWPA 2004.26.1
References cited
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Created:
Tuesday 24th February 2004
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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