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Summary

Socketed bronze spearhead with loops at the base of the blade(fig.4. ). Badly damaged and point missing. The rounded mid-rib is cast hollow; the basal loops are of lozenge outline and hammered out from the edges of the blade. Late middle bronze age type. Occurs in hoards in somerset, at taunton workhouse and in the sherford hoard, taunton, with high-flanged palstaves of south-western type. Both hoards date to 1200-1000 b. C. Or later. Found in a garden at kingsland, shiphay (fox).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX86NE/9

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317676.

Fox, a. /tda/93(1961)67 fig 4/26th report on archaeology and early history.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317677.

Osa=sx86ne34.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317678.

Pearce, s. M. /bronze age metalwork of sw britain/(1983)457(bar 120).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317679.

Mus=torquay/no 3989.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317680.

Weddell, p. J. /an archaeological assessment of the sww gallows gate to barton (torquay) water main/(1990)1/(emafu report 90.13).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV317681.

Reed, s. J. /archaeological recording on the route of the sww gallows gate to barton (torquay) water main/(1991)1/(emafu report 91.40).

FOX, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV4034.

Socketed bronze spearhead with loops at the base of the blade(fig.4. ). Badly damaged and point missing. The rounded mid-rib is cast hollow; the basal loops are of lozenge outline and hammered out from the edges of the blade. Late middle bronze age type. Occurs in hoards in somerset, at taunton workhouse and in the sherford hoard, taunton, with high-flanged palstaves of south-western type. Both hoards date to 1200-1000 b. C. Or later. Found in a garden at kingsland, shiphay (fox).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV533.

Spearhead, basal loops, long socket going up into blade, probably leaf shaped but fragmentary. Length 132mm, blade width 30mm, butt width ext 20mm (pearce).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV2671 - SPEARHEAD (LANEBA to Unknown - 2200 BC)

Associated Events: none recorded

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