Record ID: WAW-F10D36
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Bronze Age date (1500 - 800 BC) socketed spear (spearhead): The copper alloy spearhead consists of the upper portion of the spear, being broken just as the socket starts. In plan the spearhead is an elongated sub-triangle with the blade facets and tip both being abraded. The spear blades cutting edges have been lost, however, the overall shape of the blade can be probably be ascribed to being leaf-shaped. The spearhead fragment is broadly sub-triangular in plan and profile with a bi-convex shaped cross section. The lower portion of the spearhead has been lost and the br…
Created on: Friday 23rd May 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th May 2014
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Record ID: WAW-9782C7
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
In plan the arrowhead has a sub-rhomboid shape. However it is incomplete as the lower portion of the socket is broken and missing. In section the central socted forms a rounded hump which then immediately tapers to teh blade edge. The tip of the arrowhead is blunt and rounded. The blade edges are tapered and narrow in depth as the edges splay outwards. The surface is slightly pitted. The socket is broken just below the 'rhomboid' corners. The break is not recent, but does not appear to have occurred in antiquity. The patina is slightly different on the break. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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