Context (Display)
Old display label reads: 'Plough coulter, Spearheads, Hasps, Draw-knife, etc:, found in the 10th c. leaden vessel at Westley Waterless shown below. Trinity College Loan' added in pen: 'Z 16465-74'
Event Date
Author: Louise Puckett

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Spearhead'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
According to Thomas McKenny Hughes, the lead tank (Z 16465) was presented to Trinity College, Cambridge by Mr. Hall of Six Mile Bottom. It was 'dug up in draining the field behind the School and Post Office at Westley Waterless... [It] contained a bill and spearhead with side-opening sockets. Another spear, too long to be placed inside, lay across the vessel. There were also in it a steel-yard weight, holdfasts, an auger, a small coulter, staples, hasps, portions of what may have been a lock, and other fragments of iron' (p. xv) (Z 16466 - Z 16474). This discovery predates 1879, when Hughes made his presentation, but the date of discovery is currently unknown.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Sarah-Jane Harknett: 'Split socket.'
Event Date 10/9/2001
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron socketed spearhead. Slightly convex blade edges with a central longitudinal ridge, tip of blade missing. Split socket, areas missing.
Event Date 19/5/2021
Author: Louise Puckett