Code: 2869
Description: A socketed and side-looped bronze spearhead, the blade with a pronounced midrib and the loops located half-way up the socket. Some chips to the socket aperture, a minute chip to the point, some very minor edge corrosion, and some pitting particularly on one side, but a very nice example of the type with a uniform dark brown patina. Locality of find not known but British.
Size: 132 mm/5.2 ins. in length
Culture: Middle Bronze Age
Date: c. 1500-1150 B.C.
Provenance: Ex Essex private collection.
Notes: The side loops may have been used to attach the spearhead to the wooden shaft or possibly to attach streamers or other kind of decoration.
