Record ID: BH-E94CD1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy socketed spearhead or arrowhead*, dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age. The leaf-shaped blade is damaged and incomplete. The conical central socket tapers towards the top, where the point is missing. Patches of a dark grey surface survive between the areas of corrosion. Dimensions: 42.2mm long, up to 19.6mm wide and 9.6mm thick. Weight: 14.73g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E93B81
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Middle to Late Bronze Age copper-alloy axehead or palstave. The surviving piece-the patination of the break indicates that the remainder was lost in antiquity-represents the lower part of the blade and the cutting edge. The blade is of sub-rectangular section, a broad ridge extending vertically down the centre of both of its wider faces. The sides gradually flare towards the bottom, the angle widening at the cutting edge, the thickness of which gradually declines towards the bottom. The narrower two faces of the blade exhibit no traces of a casting seam, although the…
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 15th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Bedfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.