Description (Physical description)
Description for 1951.762 A-H: 'Eight iron spear and lance points with split sockets and a large variety of blades. A and B: Angon or lances with small blade, long shaft and split socket. C: Spear head with a large flat leaf-shaped blade. D and E: Two spear heads with long narrow blades and split sockets (both sockets broken). F to H: Three long spear heads with split sockets and shaft tapering up to the expanded blade. The sockets of G and H are missing'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
From the Merovingian Cemetery, Amiens, Somme.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register description for 1951.762 A-H: 'Eight spear-heads of different shapes.'
Event Date 1951
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Context (Acquisition Details)
Received as part of an exchange with the Muséum d'Historie Naturelle, La Rochelle in 1951.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other)
Accession Register for 1951.757-762 notes 'Returned to La Rochelle, July 1952' and the entries struck through. This note was then later struck through and an updated note reads: 'Received back again and re-entered, August 1952... See letter from Dr Loppé.' The catalogue card records the same information, but with the additional information that this was 'received back from Dr. Loppé.'
Event Date 1952
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Spear-head made of iron, incorporating a fragment of a split socket, narrow shoulders and double-edged blade which tapers towards a point. Midrib present on the blade. The iron is heavily corroded and chemically treated.
Event Date 20/2/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth