File:Bronze Age spear; basal looped spearhead (FindID 238896).jpg

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Bronze Age spear; basal looped spearhead
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Derby Museums Trust, Anja Rohde, 2008-11-21 12:27:49
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Bronze Age spear; basal looped spearhead
Description
English: Bronze age spear; incomplete cast copper alloy basal-looped spearhead of the middle Bronze Age, c. 1400 – 1200 BC. The spear has a circular socket which tapers to a lozenge-shaped midrib on the blade. The blade seems to be leaf-shaped and has narrow loops on either side at the base of the blade. The tip is broken off about 55mm from the base of the blade. There are quite extensive remains of fibrous organic material (probably wood) within the socket of the spear. The edges of the blade and the mouth of the socket are rather chipped and the copper alloy has patches of powdery, pale green copper chloride corrosion over its surface. There is also extensive rust-coloured corrosion over much of the spearhead, including blocking up the loops at the base of the blade. This is probably copper oxide corrosion but may also indicate that the object has been buried in close proximity to an iron-rich soil. Length 103.1mm, width 30.3mm, thickness (midrib – at break) 12.2mm, diameter (socket mouth) 19.5mm, weight 63.5g
Depicted place (County of findspot) Nottinghamshire
Date between 1400 BC and 1200 BC
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FindID: 238896
Old ref: DENO-6A4357
Filename: EFN 1102 spearhead.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/194309
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/194309/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/238896
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