Accession No
1948.448
Description
Iron socketed spearhead with an angular shaped blade with straight sides, with a split socket. Small amount of mineralised wood within socket. Some loss from the socket and side of the blade.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.448
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron; Mineralised wood
Local Term
Measurements
250mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
Anglo Saxon cemetery, not identified with any particular grave. Excavated in 1851
Event Date 1851
Author: maa
Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray.
Event Date 1852
Author: Emily Shorter
Description (CMS Description)
Split socket. Shouldered blade
Event Date 22/4/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Iron socketed spearhead with an angular shaped blade with straight sides, with a split socket. Mineralised wood within socket. Some loss from the socket and side of the blade.
Event Date 17/12/2020
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:19202
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