- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze socketed spearhead. There are two loops on the socket.
- Long description
- Socketed bronze spear head with two loops on the socket.
- Geographical reference
- Ireland County Kerry Killarney Mountains
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Middle Bronze Age
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bronze Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 19 mm, Width: max 33 mm, Length: max 107 mm, Weight 77 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.119.373.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 2270
- Research and responses
Pitt Rivers was in Ireland [serving in the Army] from 1862-66, this object may have been obtained during this period [Bowden, 1991: 60-4] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- Published in Allen, I.M., Britton, D., and Coghlan, H.H., 1970, 'Metallurgical Reports on British and Irish Bronze Age Implements in the Pitt Rivers Museum', Occasional Papers on Technology 10, Oxford University Press, Oxford. [CMP 09/08/2010] p 165 - Socketed spearhead with side loops, blade angular in outline, upper part convex with bevelled and sharpened edges, lower part concave with edges less sharpened, extreme tip missing. Midrib keeled towards tip becoming rounded below and with flanking ribs. Loops pointed oval in plan, convex in cross section. Traces of casting seams between loops and mouth of socket. Surfaces fairly well preserved apart from recent abrasion [Drawing] [Metallographic examination and analysis provided]. - Sn 7.6%, Pb<0.02%, Bi<0.004%, Fe 0.046%, Ag 0.34%, Mg<0.005%- Confirmed as a bronze [GB 25/5/2005]
Search terms: Weapon, Spear-head