Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Late Bronze Age bronze socketed spearhead

Hollow-bladed with the tip broken off. A pair of opposing rivet-holes in the socket.

Collection Area

Archaeology & Numismatics

Item Number

31.62/17

Find Information

Site Name: Crowther's Camp, Guilsfield

Date: 1862

Notes: Found during the digging of a field drain, packed tight as though originally deposited in a perishable container, on the south-east side of Rhuallt, 100m from Crowther's Camp, an Early Iron Age hillfort, near Guilsfield.

Measurements

(): maximum length / mm:146.0
(): length / mm
(): maximum width / mm:45.0
(): width / mm
(): diameter / mm:26.0 (of socket)
(): weight / g:149.3

Material

bronze

Location

In store
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