Accession No

1894.126.2


Description

Iron socketed spearhead of long, leaf shape with a split socket containing mineralised wood. Heavily corroded; fragments of blade's edge and section of socket missing.


Place

Europe; British Isles; England; Suffolk; Tuddenham


Period

Anglo Saxon


Source

Foster, Mary [monetary donor]; Morley [vendor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1894.126.2


Cultural Affliation


Material

Metal; Iron; Mineralised Wood


Local Term


Measurements

330mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1894.126[.1-2] reads: 'Two elongated iron spearheads.'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label found with object reads: '126-27 Tuddenham Suffolk. Nov.1894'
Event Date 11/1894
Author: Annie Tomkins


Context (References)
Kennett, David H. (1977) 'The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Tuddenham, Suffolk.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 67. pp. 39-62, no. 33, Fig. 6
Event Date 1977
Author: Annie Tomkins


Context (References)
West, Stanley. (1998). A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk. East Anglian Archaeology, EAA 84. pp. 33-35 
Event Date 1998
Author: Annie Tomkins


Description (Physical description)
Iron socketed spearhead of long, leaf shape with a split socket containing mineralised wood. Heavily corroded; fragments of blade's edge and section of socket missing.
Event Date 11/5/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins


Context (Other)
The number of spearheads accessioned in 1894, via purchase from Morley, is uncertain. The Accession Register entry for 1894.11 lists two, but these may have been re-entered as 1894.106 (see also: 1894.106 B); 1894.106 originally listed four, but a later hand wrote two; 1894.12 and 1894.126 both list two spearheads; and the Annual Report only lists five total. The current known total is seven, two of which are Z numbers which likely lost association with their 1894 idnos (Z 20457 D and Z 20458), although there may still be others.
Event Date 9/5/2021
Author: Annie Tomkins


FM:291573

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