File:Bronze Age spear tip (FindID 207208).jpg

English: Bronze Age spear; tip fragment of cast copper alloy socketed spearhead of probable middle or late Bronze Age date (c. 1400 – 800 BC). The fragment is approximately the last 6cm of the spear. It has a narrow, prominent midrib with a sharply-humped, oval cross section. The broken end of the spear tip shows that there is a circular hole, somewhat off-centre of the midribs, indicating that this was a socketed spearhead and therefore of a later date than the solid, tanged spearheads. The blade wings are thin and quite narrow with a small edge bevel. In profile they flare from the tip with a straight, narrow shape indicating that this spearhead was more likely to be triangular-bladed than with a leaf-shaped blade. The whole has an even, tactile, dark red-brown patina over its surface. Much of the original surface remains.

Length 58.3mm, width 23.5mm, thickness (midrib at point of break) 9.9mm, weight 21.96g

Ref: See, for instance, Adkins’ “Thesaurus of British Archaeology”, page 58 which illustrates a triangular-bladed basal looped spearhead from the Penard phase, c. 1300 – 1150 BC.