Spearhead: middle bronze age
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Middle-bronze age spearhead. This is an example of a bronze spearhead with socketed, pegged, ogival blade. It has an hexagonal socket and two lunate openings in the blade with two holes above and below them. There were also two rivet holes in the socket with part of the wood remaining. This is one of a group of weapons found in the Thames.
Date
1200 BC - 1000 BC
Image Number
000238