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Iron Age iron spearhead
Large iron socketed spearhead with sold lozenge sectioned blade and marked midrib. The blade has been bent and twisted.
Iron socketed spearhead, 300 BCE-100 CE.
Many complete iron swords and spearheads were offered into the lake at Llyn Cerrig Bach. Some were deliberately bent and rendered useless before entering the waters. Similar accumulations of weapons have been found at Iron Age religious sanctuary sites in Gaul (France). Examples of throwing or offering weapons from timber platforms into water have been discovered in La Tène in Switzerland, Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire and in Lincolnshire.
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Site Name: Llyn Cerrig Bach, Cae Ifan Farm
Notes: Objects disturbed by the construction of an airfield at RAF Station Valley