Bronze Age British Looped and Socketted Spearhead

1500-900 B.C.

5 1/4 in. (64 grams, 13.5 cm).

A small leaf-shaped blade with lozenge-section midrib; two small lateral loops.

Provenance

Found Cambridgeshire, UK, 2000s.
Property of an Essex gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Evans, J., The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1881, item 395; Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 140.

CONDITION

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