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SPEARHEAD
Unique ID: SF-34FDFA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy socketed spearhead of possible Middle Bronze Age date. Part of the blade and a small fragment of the butt end survives, missing the tip and most of the butt end due to old breaks and with extensive damage and corrosion to both sides of the blade. It is triangular in form, tapering towards the incomplete tip, with a prominent circular mid rib that is hollow almost as far as the old breaks at the tip. To either side of the mid rib are flattened blades that preserve traces of faceted or sharpened cutting edges but which have suffered from extensive post-depositional damage and corrosion making their precise form uncertain. At the butt end the blades taper towards the circular socket, a short length of which projects from the top of the blades but is mostly incomplete due to old breaks. It is missing any side loops due to old breaks. This object measures 72.71mm in length, 27.52mm in width (at blades), 12.59mm in thickness/diameter at socket, and 33.34g in weight.
This is an incomplete socketed spearhead, most plausibly from a side-looped spearhead. It finds parallels in examples from Suffolk (e.g. SF-351250) and is of possible Middle Bronze Age date, c.1600-1150 BC.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1600 BC
Date to: Circa 1151 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 72.71 mm
Width: 27.52 mm
Thickness: 12.59 mm
Weight: 33.34 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 28th July 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Nacton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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