https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Spears https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears.html Spearhead (Fragment) https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/spearhead-fragment-58036.html Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:45:31 GMT Spears Spearhead (Fragment)  
Description:

The pointed tip of a socketed Middle to Late Bronze Age spearhead. The fragment is leaf-shaped with a pronounced rib on each side.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Spearhead (Fragment) https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/spearhead-fragment-56711.html Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:53:20 GMT Spears Spearhead (Fragment)  
Description: A fragment of socketed spearhead with rounded mid-rib dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Side-Looped Spearhead https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/side-looped-spearhead-21568.html Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT Spears Side-Looped Spearhead  
Description: A complete bronze spearhead of the Middle Bronze Age. It has a leaf-shaped blade with a central rib, and a tapered socket with side loops. The loops were provided to carry thongs, which helped to fasten the spearhead securely to its shaft.

Spearheads of this type were introduced during the Acton Park industrial phase of the Middle Bronze Age, and were produced throughout the Taunton phase. Towards the end of the latter period, they began to be replaced by the basal looped type, and subsequently by spearheads with a transverse peg-hole through the socket.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Spearhead (Fragment) https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/spearhead-fragment-27198.html Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Spears Spearhead (Fragment)  
Description: The pointed tip of a Bronze-Age spearhead, probably of the Middle or Late Bronze Age.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Spearhead (Fragment) https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/spearhead-fragment-15349.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Spears Spearhead (Fragment)  
Description: A fragment of a socketed spearhead of the Middle or Late Bronze Age.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Spearhead (Fragments) https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/spearhead-fragments-31650.html Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT Spears Spearhead (Fragments)  
Description: Two adjoining fragments of the pointed end of a socketed spearhead of the Middle or Late Bronze Age.

Found in the same area (circa 100m square) as previously recorded Late Bronze Age axes (UKDFD 28823 and UKDFD 29626) and other Bronze Age material.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Side-Looped Spearhead https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/side-looped-spearhead-29524.html Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT Spears Side-Looped Spearhead  
Description: A bronze spearhead of the Middle Bronze Age. It has a slender leaf-shaped blade with a pronounced mid-rib, and a long tapered socket with side loops. The end of the socket is damaged, but both side-loops are intact. The loops were provided to carry thongs, which helped to fasten the spearhead securely to its shaft.

Spearheads of this type were introduced during the Acton Park industrial phase of the Middle Bronze Age, and were produced throughout the Taunton phase. Towards the end of the latter period, they began to be replaced by the basal looped type, and subsequently by spearheads with a transverse peg-hole through the socket.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Side-Looped Spearhead https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/side-looped-spearhead-31940.html Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT Spears Side-Looped Spearhead  
Description: A bronze spearhead of the Middle Bronze Age. It has a slender leaf-shaped blade with a pronounced mid-rib, and a long tapered socket with side loops. The tip of the spearhead is broken, having been found in two pieces, with the middle part of the tip missing. However, both side-loops are intact. The loops were provided to carry thongs, which helped to fasten the spearhead securely to its shaft.

Spearheads of this type were introduced during the Acton Park industrial phase of the Middle Bronze Age, and were produced throughout the Taunton phase. Towards the end of the latter period, they began to be replaced by the basal looped type, and subsequently by spearheads with a transverse peg-hole through the socket.

Cf. UKDFD 29524
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Basal-Looped Spearhead https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/basal-looped-spearhead-755.html Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT Spears Basal-Looped Spearhead  
Description: A complete bronze basal-looped spearhead. A spearhead of the Taunton industrial phase of the middle Bronze Age with a leaf shaped blade, rounded mid-rib and basal loops. The spearhead is in very good condition with a mid brown patination. Basal-looped spearheads supersede the earlier side-looped versions; it is thought that they gave an aerodynamic advantage.

A spearhead of similar date was found on the Thames foreshore at Mortlake, with traces of the wooden shaft preserved within the socket. It was identified as hazel and radiocarbon dated to about 1,200 BC.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
]]> Side-Looped Spearhead https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/bronze-age/spears/side-looped-spearhead-5843.html Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT Spears Side-Looped Spearhead  
Description: An incomplete side-looped spearhead of the Middle Bronze Age. The spearhead is leaf-shaped, with a rounded mid-rib. It has fractured across the socket, leaving only vestigial evidence of one of the side-loops. There is also some damage further along the socket, and a blunted tip.

Spearheads of this type were produced throughout the Acton Park and Taunton phases of the Middle Bronze Age, being joined towards the end of the period by the basal-looped type (see UKDFD 755), which possibly had improved aerodynamic characteristics.

For a possibly related find, see UKDFD 5882.
Category: Bronze Age, Spears
Category: Spears
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