NHER 4795 (Find Spot record) - Bronze Age spearhead from West End Farm

1975. Stray Find.
"Picked up on farm" just south of Oxborough drain.
Bronze Age copper alloy spearhead with leaf shaped blade and peg holes three groups of horizontal lines on socket, upper two groups of five lines each and lower of six. Edge of blade badly damaged, intact only at tip and at junction with socket. Mid rib cracked and blade bent out of true, peg holes also cracked. It is uncertain how much of this damage was caused in recent times by farm machinery etc, or if this piece was damaged in antiquity and can be regarded as possibly part of a founders hoard.
See drawing (S1).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU). Information from record card (S2).
This discovery was reported in (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 September 2018.

Corrected address of finder, who also retains the spearhead.
Information from KLM Archaeological Register.
See also record card (S4).
R. J. Rickett (NAU) 10 April 1990.