Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed to object reads: 'Finchinbrook'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Field collection)
Found 1856.
The catalogue card records: " Labelled ' Finchingbrooke' , but no such place exists." Label says: 'Hinchingbrooke, Hunts'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Long, with low mid rib. Greatest width near base of blade. Socket missing. Slightly raised ring at junction of blade and socket. Bronze inlay at base of blade.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
In July 2013 James Hodgson, BA student at the University of Central Lancashire, identified this as M.J Swanton Type H3 (cf: A Corpus of Pagan Anglo-Saxon Spear-Types. BAR 1974).
Event Date 25/9/2013
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Iron spearhead with long blade. Wide, angular shoulders, slightly concave sides below shoulder towards remains of socket. Blade has slightly concave sides and a low central rib. Around base of socket is the remnant of an inlaid copper alloy ring.
Event Date 4/5/2021
Author: Lily Stancliffe