Record ID: SF4843
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy pegged spearhead, complete except for very end of tip which has been recently blunted/rounded. Some bare metal is visible here and it seems that the blunting may have happened within the last 100 years (during re-use as a toy?). Also slightly bent towards the tip when viewed from the side. Blade edges appear relatively worn. Original surface is patinated medium/dark green where surviving, but much lost due to slight surface corrosion (and ?agricultural abrasion on one face). Circular hole (diameter 4-5 mm) on either side of socket under blade. Length 71 mm, max width…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK KNODISHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4437
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tip of narrow copper-alloy spearhead which is curiously curved and must have been bent in antiquity. There is no trace of the socket, but as the fragment is only 32 mm long and 9 mm max wide this is perhaps not surprising. The tip curves smoothly from the break at the wider end (neither particularly old nor particularly new) to a sharp tip, and there is no hint of stress to the metal. The bend is almost all in one plane - side-to-side - with only a very slight hint of a front-to-back curve. The edges are sharp, and there is a rounded midrib; in section the spearhead tip is lozengiform …
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STONHAM ASPAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5811
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of copper-alloy spearhead tip, lozenge-shaped in cross-section and with a lozenge-shaped socket reaching to within about 35 mm of the broken end. All edges, except tip break, are severely abraded. The tip break is therefore probably more recent, though it actually shows a slight casting void. The lozenge-shaped cross-section socket is a characteristic of Wilburton form spearheads (cf. the Isleham hoard) of the Late Bronze Age, c. 1200-1000 BC.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FELIXSTOWE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2238
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a thin cast copper alloy blade edge and socket possibly from a spear (in which case hollow cast blade as well as socket). Hollow cast almost up to bevelled blade edge. Medium brown/green corrosive encrustations.
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E8C314
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
The tip fragment of a bronze spearhead. Measuring 42.17mm in surviving length and 14.34mm in width, at the widest surviving point. This spearhead has been severly affected by invasive corrosion, no original edges survive and there is only about 70% of the surface surviving on one face and 20% on the other. The tip of the spearhead is missing. It has a prominent mid-rib with concave blade faces on either side. These blade faces have a medium brown patina. Elsewhere the spearhead is pale green in colour, due to corrosion products. This spearhead is middle or late Bronze Age in date, c150…
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F381F2
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
The tip of a Bronze Age spearhead. 32mm in length, 13mm in width, at the widest point and 7mm thick. The tip is sharp, the break is old and the end of the socket is visible and slightly off centre. There is also a small casting void/bubble hole next to the socket. The spear tip is patinated medium green/brown. The deep socket void suggests a lead-bronze product and a late Bronze Age date.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laxfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-68AB45
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment originating from a large socketed and basal looped spearhead of later Middle Bronze Age date (c. 1400-1150 BC) belonging to Davis' group 8; 'elongated spearheads with incorporated basal loops' forms. This object can probably be assigned to the Taunton or Penard metalworking phases. Only the upper section of the spearhead survives, consisting the upper blade and point, probably representing less than a third of the original object. The lower portion of the body, side-loops and socket have been removed by means of a neat old truncation. The upper blade is triangula…
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Euston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8440
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy basal-looped or pegged spearhead, very worn and corroded. The base of the socket and possible loops, plus the tip, are missing, along with much of the wings. The wings were probably originally quite narrow, as edge bevels survive in two small areas. The midrib is rounded. Possible basal loops are suggested by spurs at the base of the wings, with gaps above. Although it is possible that the base of originally solid unlooped wings have merely corroded away leaving these spurs, and that this is therefore a pegged spearhead, the long narrow form and concave channels beside the…
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10116
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete bronze pegged spearhead, one item within a hoard. Socket end decorated with two groups of approximately parallel girth grooves, a pair near the socket, a gap and four more nearer the peg holes. The conical socket is deep and extends to near the tip, which is shortened through ware, use and/or resharpening. The wings are relatively short. Both are slightly bent (use damage?) and one has also been blunted where the very edge has been slightly turned sideways along and parallel to most of the edge (probably by running or clashing with another hard surface). The surface has extens…
Created on: Tuesday 7th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ipswich area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10240
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Almost complete bronze pegged and decorated spearhead, one item within a hoard. Only end of tip missing but this may be recent damage - certainly badly corroded at this point. The socket is decorated with four pairs of cast ribs around the shaft. The junction of the socket is also decorated with a band of diagonal nicks. Deep cone shaped circular socket extends almost to tip. Small, plain wings with some slight recent damage to blade edges. Medium green patina with numerous small paler green corrosive encrustations.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ipswich area', grid reference and parish protected.