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.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron spearhead.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
In July 2013 James Hodgson, BA student at the University of Central Lancashire, has identified this as M.J Swanton Type G2 (cf: A Corpus of Pagan Anglo-Saxon Spear-Types. BAR 1974).
Event Date 19/8/2013
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
No visual signs of pattern welding. Split socket.
Event Date 25/9/2013
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron spearhead with split socket, most of which is missing. Rounded shoulders and straight-sided blade with rounded point. Blade corroded and uneven at sides.
Event Date 4/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe