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[edit]Bronze age decorated spearhead fragment (drawing) | |||
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Winchester Museum Service, Robert Webley, 2006-06-13 10:01:39 |
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Bronze age decorated spearhead fragment (drawing) |
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English: A worn, decorated cast copper-alloy spearhead fragment of Bronze Age date; the decoration may or may not be contemporary. In cross-section the object is a typically Bronze Age form: a lozenge with rounded corners with thin triangular wings on either side. It would have formed the base of the spear blade, broken just as this begins above the shaft and cut off tranversely above. As the blade widens (W.: 11.9mm-34.6mm), so the median rib tapers (W.: 11.9mm-5.5mm). The rib also narrows as is travels up the blade (Th.: 12.25mm-9.25mm). The shaft has been broken too close to the blade to establish whether or not this was a socketed spearhead. However, a strange delved hole appears to one side of the shaft at the thicker end, travelling into the blade wing on that side. As alluded to above, the object is decorated bifacially. Around the edges of the blade wings and round their base and up the shaft is a succession of punched dots. There appears to be a yellow residue in at least two of these dots. On the median rib are diagonal incisions which follow the tapering of the rib: two either side on one face, and three either side on the other. Within these, on the face with a total of six diagonals, are a further three dots arranged in a triangle; there is a single stray dot apparent on the other face. One of the wing edges appears to have suffered a recent nick revealing the shiny copper-alloy under the patina; otherwise, the artefact is a dusty mid-green colour. The form of the spearhead suggests a mid to late Bronze Age date; as stated above, it is uncertain as to whether the decoration was contemporary with manufacture or with the deliberate cutting of the object. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Hampshire | ||
Date | between 1500 BC and 800 BC | ||
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FindID: 134843 Old ref: HAMP-E7BC36 Filename: HAMP-E7BC36spearheaddrawing.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/104979 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/104979/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/134843 |
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File change date and time | 09:43, 13 June 2006 |
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