British spear head, Bronze Age, c.1200-900 BC
Bronze
Height: 21cm
11756 EL
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Leaf-shaped blade with rounded mid-rib, a lateral peg hole in the hollow socket used to fasten the spear head to the grip. The central rib and socket have incised decoration:...
Leaf-shaped blade with rounded mid-rib, a lateral peg hole in the hollow socket used to fasten the spear head to the grip. The central rib and socket have incised decoration: either
side a double row of dots emulating the dagger shape; the socket with two bands formed of lines of
impressed dots on either side of three incised concentric lines with arched decorative motif between;
near the base triangular patterns filled with horizontal lines and finished with a simple singular line of
dotted incisions. Intact.
Provenance
Found in East Anglia in the 1980s
Private collection, Hertfordshire, UK
Supplied with a British export licence dated 21st January 2025
Literature
For similar bronze age spearheads, see Arthur MacGregor, ed., Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection
of the Lord McAlpine of West Green (Oxford, 1987), Plate 10 and p.107, particularly no.11.45