Find Spot record SUF 031 - Tip of blade (from memory circa 3cms long) with high angular midrib, almost certainly form spearhead, re-used with butt end heavily rou… (BA)
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Summary
Tip of blade (from memory circa 3cms long) with high angular midrib, almost certainly form spearhead, re-used with butt end heavily rounded and polished in antiquity (uniform surface colour/patination all over). Previously SUF Misc
Location
| Grid reference | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
| County | SUFFOLK |
| County | CAMBRIDGESHIRE |
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Type and Period (1)
Full Description
Tip of blade (from memory circa 3cms long) with high angular midrib, almost certainly form spearhead, re-used with butt end heavily rounded and polished in antiquity (uniform surface colour/patination all over). Possibly re-used as a burnisher/polisher. Purchased from Granta Antiques amongst job lot of Misc fragments of all periods (from variety of sites?) by Mick Yates in 1995. Findspot unknown, probably Cambridgeshire, possibly Suffolk (S1).
Previously SUF Misc.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <S1> SSF23517 (No record type): Yates M (Ely & District Artefact Recovery Club), per SAU (Pendleton C), January 1996.
Finds (3)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (0)
Record last edited
Oct 20 2015 2:41PM