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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
With rivet and rounded kite-shaped blade, (bent and tip broken off) and long, slender socket with rivet half-way down, the head of rivet still peserved on one side (diam. 6) The socket, which penetrates, with a circular section, to a point where the tip is broken off, is still filled almost to its mouth with the remains of the original ash-wood (Fraxinus excelsior L.) shaft of the spear. The surface of the spearhead shows traces of a dull brown patina.
Site Name: Princetown, Tredegar
Notes: found 1964 during the construction of the Heads of the Valley road, about 300m SE of the last house of Princetown