Head of a crossbow quarrel with tapering blade and slightly expanded socket. [SM 22/01/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Head of a crossbow quarrel with tapering blade and slightly expanded socket. [SM 22/01/2008]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Oxford Headington Sandhills / Sand Hill [now Cranley Road]
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Henry Balfour; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Romano-British
Date collected: 1898
Acquisition information: Donated: 1898
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Socketed
Dimensions: Length: max 41 mm, Width: max 11 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1898.20.65
Research and responses: The Roman road between Dorchester on Thames and Alchester is marked as passing Sand Hills farm at SP 55839 07679 [now Cranley Road] on the 1921 Ordnance Survey County Series 1:2500 (2nd Revision) map. [MN 15/09/2010]
Associated publications: This object was mentioned in Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe. This is an unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc [copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe]. [MJD (Verve) 7/6/2017]

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