Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead
Pegged (rivetted), hollow-bladed spearhead with the tip broken off. Punched dot decoration on the socket and the base of the blade.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/18
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:184.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:52.0
width / mm
diameter / mm:25.0 (of socket)
weight / g:231.8
Material
copper alloy
Location
In store
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