Iron spear-head with small leaf shaped blade and socket with a rivet.

Collection type: Object
Description: Iron spear-head with small leaf shaped blade and socket with a rivet.
Long description: Spear head with small leaf shaped blade and socket with a rivet. [SM 17/01/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland County Antrim Lough Ravel Crannog
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector William Arthurs; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain
Date collected: 1864 Jan
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Riveted, Process Socketed
Dimensions: Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 120 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.120.40
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]

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