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Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead
Socket and base of blade damaged on one face. A pair of opposing rivet-holes in the socket.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
31.62/16
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): 228.0
maximum width
(mm): 48.0
diameter
(mm): 25.5 (of socket)
Weight
(g): 179.4
Material
Copper alloy
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