File:Bronze Age socketed spearhead fragment (probably) (FindID 521763).jpg

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Bronze Age socketed spearhead fragment (probably)
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2012-09-22 17:06:08
Title
Bronze Age socketed spearhead fragment (probably)
Description
English: Part of a copper-alloy socket, probably from a Mid to Late Bronze Age spearhead.

The remaining portion represents the bottom part of the socket, including its opening, under half of the original circumference surviving. On the outer surface, immediately adjacent to the opening, there is a pair of grooves. The artefact has a dull brownish-green patina and is corroded in places.

Dimensions: 29.4mm long, 15.3mm wide. Weight: 3.91g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 1500 BC and 800 BC
Accession number
FindID: 521763
Old ref: BH-DE15D4
Filename: BA_spear_12_104a_14.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/397882
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/397882/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/521763
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 3 December 2020)
Object location51° 55′ 29.28″ N, 0° 08′ 59.31″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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