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SPEARHEAD
Unique ID: LIN-1CDF13
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
An incomplete socketed copper alloy spear head dating from the Middle Bronze Age, about 1550 - 1250 BC. It probably can be assigned to Davis's Group 6 'Developed side looped' type (Davis 2017). It has a narrow blade measuring 45 mm in length. The tip is missing and the break is very worn and patinated suggesting it broke in antiquity. Only circa 12-15 mm of the tip appears to be missing. The blade wings are highly abraded and irregular, though much of this appears to have occurred post-deposition since the breaks are a different patina to the rest of the object. A maximum width of 7mm remains of the the blade wings. There is a hollow cylindrical socket at the blade base. The base of the socket is incomplete, and no side loops are visible.
The total length of the spearhead is 66 mm and the maximum width (from blade wing to wing) is 21 mm. The maximum thickness is 14 mm. The diameter of the socket at the base is 14 mm. The spearhead weighs 23.82g.
Davis (2017) notes that "Spearheads from the earlier MBA were those with sockets extending into the blade, and with loops on the side of the socket. They date to the Acton Park and Taunton phases, 1550-1250 BC."
Davis R (2017) Later Prehistoric Finds Group Object Datasheet No.5; A Short Guide to Early and Middle Bronze Age Spearheads
Class: Fragment
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: BRONZE AGE
Date from: Circa 1550 BC
Date to: Circa 1250 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 23.82 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Fiskerton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF0671
Four figure Latitude: 53.22547899
Four figure longitude: -0.41367588
1:25K map: TF0671
1:10K map: TF07SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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