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Record ID: WILT-B710B4
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of spearhead 60mm in length to very sharp point. The edges are also sharp. The midrib is prominent and the the blade relatively flat. Width at (oldish) break 19mm. In section it is a diamond set on its points on a pointed and elongated oval. Greenwell and Brewis' Class IV.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Ampney St Peter', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-067652
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Bronze Age bronze side-looped socketed spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis' Class IV, measuring 127.6mm in length and weighing 51.05g. The socketed is slightly flared at its 'open' end, and 17.6x17.5mm in diameter (internal 15.6x15.3mm). The loops, which are flattened, are situated roughly half way along the shaft. The head is leaf-shaped, with a slight turning-in at the very end. The socket is a pronounced mid-rib and the edges of the wings are chamfered. The max width of the wings, and spearhead, is 21.5mm. There is recent damage to one side of the spearhead in the f…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Westbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-4E7E04
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two halves of a Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis Type IV, now repaired as one. It is 110.2mm in length with a socket diameter of 17x15.7mm (one side is slightly squashed). The internal diameter is 13.8mm. The blade is 'flame shaped' and c.68mm in length. Almost all the original edge is damaged, apart from at the very base of the blade. The widest point is just above this, at 19.9mm. It would originally have been c.23mm wide here. The mid-rib, as an extension of the socket, extends to the tip. This has been bashed on both sides by a hammer-like obj…
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-818D74
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis Class IV, with badly damaged blades and coated recently in preservative, giving the spearhead a very shiny appearance.
The socket is 17mm in diameter (internal 14mm) with a mid-rib equidistant between the casting seams on both sides. This extends the length of the spearhead. The socket narrows over 56mm to 8x8mm just below the wings, where it is square in section.
The loops are slightly lop-sided and roughly two thirds between socket end and wings, nearer to the latter. They are oval in section, looping out and …
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-582A14
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete but in two pieces, Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis' Class IV. It has a long flame-shaped blade (88mm in length) and a shorter body (61mm in length), halfway along which are the loops.
The socket is 18mm in diameter (14mm internal) narrowing to 12mm at the base of the blade. The loops are pointed oval in shape and c.20mm long, with an oval piercing not invasive to the socket.
The blade has bevelled edges which are quite damaged (recent). The maximum width is 25.5mm. The socket continues circular in sectino to the point.
The patina is shiny …
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-4FCD41
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late Bronze Age decorated spearhead socket (probably). The fragment is curving in profile and would have originally been c.23mm in diameter. It measures 17.4x13.6x1.7mm and weighs 2.04g. The fragment is decorated to the outwardly curving side only, with two bands of a pair of grooved lines. To the reverse the metal is not smooth, possibly through corrosion. The two longer edges are jagged and are clear breaks. However the two shorter edges both seem to be original, which would suggest the object is no a spearhead. Possibly, patination has ocurred over the break, as is visib…
Created on: Friday 27th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-697EE0
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead, consisting of the very tip only. It measures 25.7mm in length and is a lozenge shape in section. It weighs 4.38g. The midrib occupies much of the fragment, there surviving only 1.5mm in width the edge beyond. The midrib is damaged to one side, showing possibly the very end of the socket. At the break, the fragment is 12mm wide and 5.4mm thick. The tip narrows to the very end, which is 3mm thick.
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-6C4335
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Bronze Age spearhead, measuring 49.8mm in length, max.12mm wide, and weighing 7.42g. Almost all original patina is missing and no original cutting edge survives. It is extensively worn. The tip is missing. In section the spearhead has a circular shaft (6.6mm diameter), apparantly with a clay fill, if so presumably left over from the casting process and creating a weak point for the spear to snap at. The spearhead has a prominent mid-rib. From its current outline (although heavily worn and damaged) it is probably Greenwell and Brewis Type Va, and would have had peg-ho…
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-8F2112
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy hollow spearhead, weighing 25.67g.
It is 46.5mm long, 22mm wide (max) and 9mm wide (min) at the breaks. The socket is a pointed oval 10x4mm and slightly off-centre, so the metal is rather thin to one side of one face (where the break is more exaggerated).
A length of 34mm is solid after the socket ends. One edge is very rounded though not apparently worn. The other edge is sharper and worn with chunks missing. The edges fall sharply from a central vertical point, although this is not a rib.
Late Middle to Early Late Bronze Age in date, and possibly a miscast (d…
Created on: Thursday 29th July 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Downton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-8E0680
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age (1450 - 900 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, consisting of part of the blade section. It measures 31.34x30.18x9.07mm and weighs 20.3g.
The central rib is prominent and circular in section at the narrower end (7.69mm), while at the other (wider) break it has been flattened off on both sides. The blade is triangular in section to either side of the rib, narrowing from c.3.6mm thick to c.1.5mm at the edge. In shape, the fragment is triangular with very angled edges, suggesting an angular- or flame-shaped head.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-2BD9F2
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Middle to Late Bronze Age (1450 - 900 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, missing its socket end and its tip. The edges are very damaged, some ancient and some recent (plough). It measures 83.50mm in length and weighs 36.05g. The spearhead is max.20.73x10.62mm and min.13.42x7.08mm at either end. In cross-section, the central rib is diamond-shaped with the c.2mm thick blade extending from opposing points. At both breaks, the central rib is solid, suggesting the spearhead would have originally been quite long. It is uncertain if any part of the edge is original (ie.not damaged) …
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-8CE367
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn fragment of Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500 BC - 800 BC) copper alloy socketed spearhead, consisting of the very tip only. It measures 43.64mm in length and max.14.44x8.96mm at the (old) break. It weighs 13.2g.
The midrib is circular in cross-section, the blades either side triangular in cross-section. The edges of the blades are much worn and at the tip turn inwards sharply (3.38x3.47mm).
The patina is almost all lost but where it survives shows a defining groove flanking the central mid-rib.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-5DBFF5
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle/ Late Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead, probably from (quite a large) flame- or leaf- shaped spearhead (possibly Greenwell & Brewis Type IV). The breaks are ancient and the fragment now very worn, although some knocks are recent. It is broken horizontally across the socket. The edges of the blade are worn although the bevelling is still visible.
The fragment is from near the tip and has broken across the socket to one side and the solid spear tip to the other. The spearhead is pointed oval in section with a broad flat mid-rib (socket 9xc.6mm).
The fragment me…
Created on: Friday 19th August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-774AE7
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment, consisting of the tip, of a Late Bronze Age spearhead. The break is ancient and possibly cut - the section is very smooth at this point, although the metal does appear to hava been treated, which may account for this.
The fragment is 56.5mm long and weighs 15.51g. At the break it is 17mm wide (although one edge is worn) and 8mm thick at the mid-rib. At the point, which is worn, it is 3mm wide and 2.5mm thick.
The rib becomes less pronounced c.10mm from the tip, where the blade becomes more lozengiform in section. At the break, the rib is very pronounced, with a slight depress…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-9145D6
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis’s Rapier type, Class IVa, broken at the top of the loops and about a third of the way along the blade. The socket is highly accentuated in profile and is quite angular in section, reaching a point. The wings are very flat in comparison. Surface is heavily pitted and the blade edges are badly damaged. Length 52mm
Created on: Monday 17th November 2003
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-B12977
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Middle Bronze Age (1400-1250 BC) bronze socketed spearhead, with some (recent) edge damage and surface pitting along prominent areas. It consists of part of the blade up to the tip. Measures 73.97x(max)21.69x(max)12.58mm and weighs 24.2g.
In cross-section, the central socket is diamond-shaped, with an additional crest-like ridge on both faces and the edges of the socket between curving and not straight. At the (old) break, an off-centre socket 3.14mm in diameter is visible, extending 3.31mm deep. This is presumably the end of the socket. One edge is badly damaged but the…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: WILT-058123
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Beautiful complete Middle Bronze Age copper alloy side-looped spearhead of Greenwell and Brewis's Class IV.
It is 132mm long with a socket diameter of 16mm (int) and 17.5mm (ext). At its widest, the blade is 20mm wide.
The blade is leaf-shaped and slender with chamfered edges meeting at an almost-complete point, ?recent damage. The blade consists of about half the spear head. The Narrowing socket continues (although probably not hollow the entire way).
The socket also has a chamfered edge, c.4mm wide, around its circumference. The loop lie equidistant between the socket end and the…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd March 2004
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Easton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-A4C551
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Bronze Age bronze spearhead, flame-bladed type, of Greenwell & Brewis type V. The edges of the blade are quite jagged, but otherwise the patina is smooth and shiny and brown.
The socket (diameter 20mm, internal 16mm) is decorated with a series of vertical nicks, which are visible with socket end facing. Above this are four crude incised lines - rather wiggly and in one place one line vears off as though the designer has made a mistake. Directly above these is a ring of vvvvvvvv. Then two more groups of five incised lines, the top-most of which runs through the peg holes, 11.5m…
Created on: Thursday 4th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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Record ID: WILT-578995
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Bronze Age side-looped spearhead of Greenwell & Brewis' Class IV, consisting of the socket, loops and lower part of the blade only.
The socket-end has been widened and the metal here is rather thin - 0.5mm with a 20mm diameter compared with 2mm thick and a 17mm diameter 6mm above.
c.14mm from the socket end the section of the socket becomes a square-on-its-points. This continues into the blade, where it becomes the mid-rib, and to the break. The loops are placed about two thirds of the distance from the socket to the bottom of the blade, nearer to the blade. T…
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Latton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-840B36
Object type: AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early (or Middle) Bronze Age bronze flanged axehead (or possibly palstave axehead although the flanges are a bit low), consisting of the damaged butt end only. It measures 24.43x(max)26.86x(max)8.77mm and weighs 25.15g. The damaged butt end appears to be complete at one corner and broken at the other. Just off centre is a bubble in the metalwork, possibly contributing to the break by weakening the metal. The break at the other end of the fragment is I-shaped in section, just as the flanges are beginning to develop. The fragment is too small with not enough surviving of the …
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 20th December 2022
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