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Late Bronze Age spearhead
This is the blade end of a solid (miscast) spearhead. It has a projecting peg at the rivet holes, due to the omission of the core, and a peg for securing it in position. The tip is missing and the seams are untrimmed.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/28.1
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:103.0
length / mm
maximum width / mm:42.0
width / mm
thickness / mm:17.5
weight / g:212.6
length / mm:173.0*
Material
copper alloy
Techniques
cast
Location
In store
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