Record ID: NLM-A84697
Object type: RAZOR
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable razor. Cast U-shaped plate with a cutting edge which runs along one long edge and continuing along the short straight side; the other long side and the U shaped end are flattened. The section is of extremely flattened lentoid form, a point which is only apparent if it is viewed against a straight edge.This object was initially considered as a sword blade fragment, but it lacks any convincing strengthening of the middle part of the blade, and a single sided form would be unusual for a rapier. This object appears to have been robustly cleaned by the finder. Suggest…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-A82A87
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spearhead fragment. Cast blade of a spearhead of ogival section with a pronounced mid rib extending almost to the extreme tip (which is lost). The object is broken as the blade narrows to approach a socket (lost), where it is already of hollow construction. The cutting edges of the blade are abraded, more so on one side than the other, and probably relatively recently. Suggested date: Middle to Late Bronze Age, 1600-800 BC. Length: 78.7mm, Width: 18.7mm, Thickness (mid rib): 8.2mm, Thickness (at break near socket): 1.9mm, Weight: 21.81gms.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stow', grid reference and parish protected.