Poorly Located Find Spot record IKL 275 - Findspot of a Bronze-Age basal looped and pegged spearhead

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Summary

Basal looped and pegged spearhead with oval section mid rib. Formerly recorded as IKL MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 78 74 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL77SE
Civil Parish ICKLINGHAM, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

Basal looped and pegged spearhead with oval section mid rib. Damaged perforated `loops' in base of blade. Peg holes diagonally crossed with incised `decoration'. Oval socket. Length 37.6 cms, weight 411.05 gms (S1). Found at `Icklingham' in or before 1848 when presented to Suffolk Institute of Archaeology by Mr Bailey (S2).
Pegholes are unusual in a basal looped spearhead and other unusual features such as the diagonal incisions at the peg holes & the oval section indicate possible C19 forgery (S1)(S3).
Probably same as "Bronze-Age spear-head ... in Bury St Edmunds Museum" (S5).

Formerly recorded as IKL MISC

Sources/Archives (7)

  • <S1> (No record type): Pendleton C, `The distribution of BA metalwork in NW Suffolk', BA dissertation, Nottingham, 1985, nu.
  • <S2> Bibliographic reference: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. PSIA, 1, 1851, (5), 219.
  • <S3> Bibliographic reference: Rowlands M J. 1976. The Organisation of Middle Bronze Age Metalworking. no. 1587.
  • <S4> (No record type): BSEMH, catalogue, 1903.
  • <S5> Bibliographic reference: 1911. Victoria County History, Suffolk (VCH). 276.
  • <S6> (No record type): Edwardson A R, BA Metalwork in Moyses Hall Museum, 1968.
  • <S7> (No record type): Proc Soc Antiq, 5, 432.

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:35AM

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