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Bronze Age socketed spearhead (fragment)
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2015-03-18 16:56:27
Title
Bronze Age socketed spearhead (fragment)
Description
English: A fragment of a Middle to Late Bronze Age socketed spearhead.

The piece represents the tip of the weapon, the remainder having been lost in antiquity. The tip is of pointed-oval cross section, has part of the socket remaining (also pointed-oval) and straight sides which converge towards the point.

Length: 39.6mm; width: 18.4mm; thickness: 5.3mm. Weight: 1.37g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hertfordshire
Date between 1600 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 711776
Old ref: BH-9AE06B
Filename: BA_spear_15_27_3.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/509734
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/509734/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/711776
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Attribution: St. Albans District Council
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