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Bronze Age spear
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Suffolk County Council, Helen Geake, 2014-06-23 14:43:22
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Bronze Age spear
Description
English: Tip of narrow copper-alloy spearhead which is curiously curved and must have been bent in antiquity. There is no trace of the socket, but as the fragment is only 32 mm long and 9 mm max wide this is perhaps not surprising. The tip curves smoothly from the break at the wider end (neither particularly old nor particularly new) to a sharp tip, and there is no hint of stress to the metal. The bend is almost all in one plane - side-to-side - with only a very slight hint of a front-to-back curve. The edges are sharp, and there is a rounded midrib; in section the spearhead tip is lozengiform with incurved sides to the lozenge. Shiny dark brown patina. Length 32 mm, maximum width 9 mm, maximum thickness 5 mm.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date BRONZE AGE
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FindID: 19017
Old ref: SF4437
Filename: SALsf233sf4437dwg.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/473874
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/473874/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/19017
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